LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (28)
AUGUST 8TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An aeroplane had fallen into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £9 9s..
An Aeroplane (54)
JUNE 10TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew were drowned before the life-boat and a motor launch could reach the spot. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (77)
AUGUST 11TH. - TORBAY, AND EXMOUTH, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down between Exmouth and Teignmouth, but after putting out both lifeboats were recalled. - Rewards : Torbay, £3 17s. 6d. ; Exmouth, £7 0S. 6d.
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE. — On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
Category: Articles
Hard Graft And Glamour
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
Category: Articles
Coronet
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.26 on the morning of the 5th of May, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground one mile south of Red Sand Fort and was pounding heavily. At 10.55 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No....
A 23' Westerly Pageant Yacht
Electric storm INFORMATION THAT MOTOR YACHT Zaire was standing by a yacht in distress three miles south west of Anvil Point came from HM Coastguard to Swanage lifeboat station deputy launching authority at 1915 on Friday, September 24,...
Wells Lifeboat Ernest Tom Neathercoat Photographed from Raf Helicopter Rescue 125 Soon After 1000 on November 21 As She Rides Out the Storm and High Sea
Wells Lifeboat Ernest Tom Neathercoat Photographed From Raf Helicopter Rescue 125 Soon After 1000 On November 21 As She Rides Out The Storm and High Sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Apr 1.29 ON-1257(17-30): Jun 23 D-4Z8: Apr 19; May 21; Jun 8{x2), 15,19 ABERDOVEY B-758: Apr 18, 20; Jun 1(x2), 4,14, 25,29 ABERSOCH 8-790: May 18, 24 ABERYSTWYTH B-704: May 29; Jun 11. 23, 27, 29 B-774:Apr 1,13,...
Category: Services