LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 12TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 12.39 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea 3 1/2 miles S.W. of Towan Head, and the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at...

AUGUST 15TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.

An enemy aeroplane had been brought down, and a second had been seen to fall, but an Amble fishing boat rescued five Germans, and nothing else was found but three patches of oil. -...

LIFE-BOAT AND SPEED BOAT PUT OUT TO CANOEISTS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 26th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an inflatable canoe was drifting out to sea off Jaywick. The life-boat...

APRIL 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north-east from the look-out, and at 6.40 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 10th day of April, 1856, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy-Chairman of the Institution, and Chairman of Lloyd's Register...

IN the last number of The Lifeboat was published an article on the Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, the two families in that little fishing village from which are drawn the greater part of the Crew of the Boulmer...

Newspoint Top of the bill The November announcement by the Charities Aid Foundation that the RNLI was number one in the 1987 charities' 'top ten' is fitting recognition of the hard work put in by fund raisers throughout the...

PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...