LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (19)
SEPT. 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At one in the morning it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea. She sank just after the life-boat reached her. There was no sign of her crew. The life-boat again searched...
Waiting With Wilkie to Swimalong for the Rnli at Birmingham Holiday Inn
Waiting with Wilkie to Swimalong for the RNLI at Birmingham Holiday Inn. Only one Olympic champion, David Wilkie, but plenty of eager swimmers. Nearly 100 boys took part from West House, one of several local schools in the swim, and they... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (178)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd June, 1870. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Laura
About 1 A.M.
oil the 9th September, a telephone message was received from the Shipwash Light-vessel, stating that the brigantine Laura, of Whitstable, had been in collision with the Light-vessel, and was then drifting...
An R.A.F. Aerial Life-Boat
MAY 12TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
An R.A.F. aerial life-boat was adrift and flying a distress signal, but an air-sea rescue launch took her in tow. - Rewards, £9 8s..
The Central Appeals Committee
THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...
Category: Committee
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING EGLINTON, Co. LONDONDERRY. About 12.15 in the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1944, the Eglinton coastguard received an SOS from the R.N.A.S. Eglinton, that a Corsair aeroplane had crashed into the sea 200 yards off...
Category: Services
The Countess of Dartmouth Being Presented With An Evening Stole, Hand-Knitted By Mr. George Welburn, Coxswain of Bridlington Life-Boat
The Countess of Dartmouth being presented with an evening stole, hand-knitted by Mr. George Welburn, coxswain of Bridlington life-boat. The presentation was made during the annual fashion show organized by the Bridlington branch of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs