LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shamrock, of Wick
OCTOBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.38 at night the coastguard reported that flashes from a torch and a white flare had been seen six hundred yards north of South Head. A strong north-north-west breeze was blowing,...
Phoebe, of Goole
The Ann Maria life-boat at Winter- ton saved 2 men from the schooner Phoebe, of Goole, which had stranded on Wintertou Ness Point.
Peeks of Bournemouth
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Category: Advertisement
A Picture of Success
Lady Winifred Hilton with the Deputy Mayor of Chesterfield as he presents the painting to raffle winner, Commander S. Sampson RN(Retd). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gratitude of Airmen.
Many of the launches of life-boats have been to the help of airmen.
When the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had been out to the rescue of a Hurricane fighter which had come down in the sea, the pilot's squadron...
Category: Articles
Brenton, of Fowey
The schooner Brenton, of Fowey, was observed with signals of distress flying, on the Skull Martin Rock, near Ballywalter, on the 4th December. The wind was blow- ing very fresh from N. to N.E., and a heavy sea was running at the time, render...
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels and Numbers of the Fleets
DURING 1938 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 53 British vessels; forty-five of these services were by the United States, three by Norway, two by Holland, and one each by France, Sweden and...
Category: Services
Hortensia, of Hanover
On the night of the 27th March the schooner Hor- tensia, of Hanover, drove ashore on the North Steel Rocks, near Boulmer. The Boulmer life-boat was soon launched through a high surf, and proceeded to the rescue of.
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North Esk of Sunderland
On the 2nd November, at daylight, the brig North Esk, of SUnderland, was seen ashore on the north tail of Bideford Bar, the wind blowing a hurricane from W.N.W. at the time. A crew was quickly despatched from Apple- dore to man the life-boat...