LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Cobles Joan and Mary, and Jean and Barbara
JANUARY 27TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
A heavy west-by-north wind rose, with a rough sea, while two motor fishing cobles.
Joan and Mary and Jean and Barbara were at sea, and it was decided to send out the motor...
The Harkaway and a Lugger
WORTHING.—On the 1st June, in consequence of a sudden gale from S.W., a very heavy sea was set up on the coast about Worthing, and a number of fishing-boats at anchor were placed in great peril—some drove from their anchors; the Life-boat...
Services by Shore-Boats (7)
TORBAY, DEVON. At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea.
The crew of three were seen clinging to the keel. The call...
Category: Services
Endeavour III
PROPELLER TROUBLE Caister, Norfolk. At 8.50 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the police told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was flying distress signals off Caister. The life-boat motor mechanic, who was in the boat-house, confirmed...
Sarah Ann
In a mode- rate gale with a heavy sea and a strong surf, on the 28th January, the ketch Sarah Ann, of Liverpool, bound from Port Colman to Beaumaris in ballast, became unmanageable, and the master, fearing he could not reach Holyhead in...
An American Thunderjet Fighter
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
Used English and Foreign Stamps Can Earn the RNLI Money
Used English and Foreign Stamps Can Earn The RNLI Money. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The wreck of the Hindlea
The scars left by the wreck of the Royal Charter run deep among local people. The storm and the appalling loss of life have become a grim legend and on the centenary of the shipwreck in October 1959 a service of remembrance was held at...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 1st August. Captain Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Widgeon II
Walmer, Kent. At 8.56 on the even- ing of the 21st of September, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that two red flares had been seen four to five miles south-east of the look-out. At 9.5 the life-boat Charles Dibdin...