LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st March to the 30th June 1879
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Light- ship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the E. part of the...
Category: Services
Three of the Crew and Master (Below) of the Medina D Safely Ashore After Their Rescue By Coxswain Catchpole and the Crew of the Lowestoft Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft (P
Three of the crew and master (below) of the Medina D safely ashore after their rescue by Coxswain Catchpole and the crew of the Lowestoft Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft (Photos Eastern Daily Press). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Drifter Golden News
FEBRUARY 9TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.45 A.M. the naval base reported a vessel in difficulties off the harbour entrance.
The weather was foggy, with a light northerly wind, and the sea was calm. At 9...
Horses Pull a Fully Manned Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat Through the Streets During An Early Lifeboat Saturday Parade the Exact Location Is Unknown
Horses pull a fully manned pulling and sailing lifeboat through the streets during an early Lifeboat Saturday parade. The exact location is unknown.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Inflatable Dinghy
Capsized inflatable THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1522 on Saturday April 25, 1981, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized in Porthdinllaen Bay, throwing two people into the water....
Lifeboat Services
Ireland Division Harbour tug to the rescue AT ABOUT NOON on Saturday, January 12,1974, the Royal Ulster Constabulary were told that a small dinghy was in difficulties off Ballgalley Head. Police Sergeant D. McCutcheon drove out to the Head...
Category: Services
Services of Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...
Category: Services
Remuneration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
ANY person who has travelled on our seacoasts, and has been in the habit of conversing with the fishermen and other seamen at the various ports, fishing-towns, and wateringplaces, on the subject of their rendering assistance to shipwrecked...
Category: Articles
H.M. Submarine Truculent
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 12th of January, 1950, the life-boats from these two stations were out on service, assisting with the transhipment of survivors from H.M.
Submarine Truculent.—Rewards: Mar-...
Fireman Sam Deciphers the Name on a Winning
Fireman Sam deciphers the name on a winning ticket from the draw while Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, prepares the drum for another spin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs