LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from a Yacht. Letters of Gratitude
Letters of Gratitude.
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...
Category: Services
The S.S. Mydrecht
During fine weather, with a smooth sea, on the 4th April, the Coastguard reported shortly after midnight that a message had been received from the North Goodwin Light- vessel stating that a steamer was ashore on the Sands. The Life-boat...
Lizzie and the Laddie
ST. IVES.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel lying at anchor in the bay, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. with a heavy sea, the Lifeboat Exeter was launched at I.d5 A.M.
on the 27th March. The...
Rescue of Bathers In Distress
TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (2)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—26th February, 1939. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was saved by a motor boat.—Rewards, £10 Is. 6d..
An Aeroplane (2)
FEB. 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was saved by a motor boat.-Rewards, £10 1s. 6d..
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—This life-boat establishment, which was one organised-some years since by a local society, has been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION through the kind co-operation of G. B. M. BEATSON, Esq., late...
Category: Articles
Around the Coast
Barrow branch has set itself the target of raising £26,000, the estimated cost of reengining and refitting its lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson, Herbert Leigh. The halfway mark, £13,000, was passed last...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Melissa and The Balmerino
On the afternoon of the 19th December the coxswain was warned that a vessel was ashore at Blackburn Rock, south of Ayr. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat Sir David...
Sunday May 26 1974: North Berwick Ilb Blue Peter Iii Took Medical Assistance to a Boy Who Had Fallen Over the Cliff In a Bay Which Could Only Be Reached from Seaward T
Sunday, May 26, 1974: North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III took medical assistance to a boy who had fallen over the cliff in a bay which could only be reached from seaward. The boy was found to be too badly injured to be taken off by sea, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs