LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wells Lifeboat Ernest Tom Nethercoat Photograph Courtesy Lynn News and Advertiser
Wells Lifeboat Ernest Tom Nethercoat Photograph Courtesy Lynn News and Advertiser. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Four T.I.D. Tugs 111, 112, 113 and 115
JANUARY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. As soon as the Eileena had been brought in the coxswain reported it to the naval control, which at once asked him to go out again to the four T.I.D. tugs 111, 112, 113 and 115. The previous night,...
April
APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.
APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...
Category: Services
Torbay: the Crew from the Cargo Vessel Majorca Are Put Ashore at Brixham
Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.5 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, believed to be one in which the life-boat honorary secretary's son and two of his friends had put out earlier in the day....
The Plymouth Motor Life-Boat: Inaugural Ceremony
THE Inaugural Ceremony, on 12th July, of the Plymouth Motor Life-boat, the third Life-boat to be built of the 60- feet Barnett Twin Screw type, was one of the most successful ever held. It took place in Plymouth's Civic Week, for which...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...
Category: Services
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Category: Articles
An Air Force Aeroplane
27th September. A Royal Air Force aeroplane had come down in the sea in a fog on the previous day. A search over a wide area revealed noth- ing.—Rewards, Hartlepool, £6 7s. 6d.; Teesmouth, £8 15s..
Four Cobles
Four cobles of Spittal and Berwick went out during the forenoon on the 6th April to recover their gear, which they had been obliged to abandon three days previously owing to heavy winds. They proceeded to Goswick Bay, and had hardly...