LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Foreign Life-Boat Services
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1951 - 77,528 Foreign Life-boat Services BEFORE the war The Life-boat pub-...
Category: Services
A Fishing Boat The Joseph
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 19th April the Coxswain of the Life-boat Maria Stephenson observed a small line fishing-boat about six miles to the northward of Buckie, with a signal of distress flying. At the time a whole off-shore...
Woodlark and Fishing Vessel Saphir
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 4.35 in the morning of the llth of October, 1948, the coastguard reported a message from the British steamer Woodlark that she had collided with and sunk the fishing vessel Saphir, of Camaret, three miles north-west...
The S.S. Vistula
AITH'S 26 HOURS' SEARCH.
Aith, Shetlands. — 9th October, 1939. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M.
that the s.s. Vistula, of Gothenburg, Sweden, had been...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...
Category: Services
Panachrandos
Walmer, Ken*.—At 5.50 P.M. on the * 19th October, 1939, eight hours after the life-boat had brought back the doctor from the Dutch steamer Mirza, a message was received from the doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to...
Books
• Peter Mitchell's book The Wrecker's Guide to South West Devon has been written in response to the demands of the thousands of diving enthusiasts who each year travel to the West Country in search of the wrecks which litter its...
Category: Articles
Friends of the RNLI
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Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1950, some fishing cobles of Filey were at sea.
Because of the freshening north-westerly wind and mounting seas it was decided to launch the life-boat, and at 1.36...
James Bower Awards
COXSWAIN John Sales of Lerwick and Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St.
Ives have both received gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund established by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation...
Category: Awards