LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sea Plane No. 898
The Life-boat Licensed Victualler was launched at 7 A.M.
on the 26th October at the request of the officer commanding the Admiralty Seaplane No. 898, to make a search for the machine, which had broken adrift the previous...
Lifeboat International By Commander Peter D Sturdee Obe Rn
FIRST EVER LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PLYMOUTH: JULY 19 - AUGUST 17LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL is the slogan chosen for the International Lifeboat Exhibition which is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, from July 19 to August 17. It is...
Category: Articles
Ben Doran
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
March (1)
MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1879
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal and U. to Mr.
JAMES MACKAY for saving two boys by swimming at great risk to a boat, which, had been swamped while attempting to cross the Bar of Tongue, tine Margaret, of Rye, which was...
Category: Articles
"The Old Cork Buoy."
THE night was dark, the tempest roared, The waves ran mountains high: It seemed to every hand on board As if the sea and sky In one commingled mass was blent And welded by the gale, Save where the quiv'ring light'niag rent The...
Category: Poetry
The Sailing Boat Pila
Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.16 p.m. on 9th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in danger of being driven ashore in Seaford Bay.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.25 in a moderate to fresh...
The Rowing Boat
Margate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the after- noon of the llth of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a smallboat with four men in it was in diffi- culties between one and a half and two miles west of Herne Bay pier.
At...
The Women of Staithes In Their Traditional Bonnets Manning the Raffle Stall During the Harbour Fete Organised By Runswick and Staithes Branch Among the Highlights W
The women ofStaithes in their traditional bonnets manning the raffle stall during the harbour fete organised by Runswick and Staithes branch. Among the highlights were lifeboat displays and the weekend ended with a thanksgiving service. More... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ocean Spray (2)
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...