LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Panaghiotis
MARCH 15TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 8.40 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer had stranded S.E. of the coastguard station at Jury’s Gap.
A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with...
Lifeboat Services
SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...
Category: Services
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Arbroath, Angus.—22nd September, 1938. Red flares had been reported from the Bell Rock Lighthouse, but nothing could be found to account for them.—Rewards, £13 8s..
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy (1)
DECEMBER 18TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. An aeroplane’s dinghy had been reported some miles S.W. of the Bishop Rock, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 4s. 6d..
Screw Steam Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PROFILE MIDSHIP SECTION DECK PLAN PRINCIPAL DIMENSIONS. UnJIk mir ill 56 f! 6 in • -on I.W.I. •53. 0 *V_ Breidlr, . . 12 - 6 • over spoiisons 11 . 0 ...
Category: Drawings
Sittingbourne's Celebrated
Sittingbourne's celebrated whistling postman, Dale Howling, completed his eighth annual charity cycle ride for Sittingbourne branch in just two days in May last year. Dale cycled nearly 200 miles visiting en route all eight Kent lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hair-Raising Funds!
Gary Whiting from Mirfield in West Yorkshire, turned heads earlier this year with a hair-brained scheme to raise money for charity - he had half of his beard and moustache shaved off! Gary, went about his daily routine for ten days before... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harbour Life-Boats and the Life-Preserving Apparatus
WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
Category: Articles
A Small Auxiliary Yacht Edith
On the night of 25th May the Honorary Secretary received a telephone message from the Coastguard at Hope Cove that the small auxiliary yacht Edith, belong- ing to Bigbury-on-Sea, was disabled and drifting about five miles off Salcombe, with...
The S.S.. Binnendijk
OCT. 7TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 11.15 P.M. the coastguard informed the lifeboat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was in distress, through enemy action,...