LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Thunder Jet Aircraft
Margate, Kent. At 6.5 on the even- ing of the 13th of November, 1957, an anticipatory message was received from the coastguard reporting a message from the United States Air Force base at Manston that two Thunder Jet air- craft were missing....
The Wreck Register and Chart of 1859
IN accordance with our annual custom, we are called on to chronicle the fearful and, in the present instance, unprecedented effects, both on life and property, of the terrific storms of the preceding twelve months in the seas and on the...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1864
IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1892
Jan. 2.—Three men s-aved a man who had fallen overboard from the hrigantine Thomas, of Lowestoft, which was lying at anchor oS Lowestoft Harbour.—Reward, 15s.
Jan. 5.—Six men saved four fishermen whose boat hnd been...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Regulations January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...
Category: Articles
Messages of Congratulation from Abroad
ON 4th March, the hundredth birth- day of the Institution, the following telegrams of congratulation were received from abroad—from foreign Governments, Life-boat Services and Shipping and Sailors' Societies. They are another tribute to...
Category: Correspondence
Ship's Lifeboats. Loss of the Europa
ALAS! How many wholesale shipwrecks have the last few months witnessed! How many human beings, who might otherwise, like ourselves, have been now enjoying the many and varied blessings which life affords, have been cut off by these sad, sad...
Category: Articles
Surfboards
Surfers saved in lightning rescue dashAs senior helmsman Aubrey Diggle was leaving the boathouse on the morning of 23 February 2002, a surfer reported that two of his colleagues were being swept away. Looking out to sea, Aubrey instantly...
Inflatable Dinghies
Drifting out to sea, Helen Hunt thought her time was up Sandra and Helen Hunt, two women from Birmingham, were on holiday at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire on 1 September 2005. They were enjoying playing on their inflatable dinghies, until they...