LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Voyage of the Motor Life-Boat "William Evans" from Cowes to Wexford
THE following are some extracts from the report of the Irish District Inspector on the voyage which the new Wexford Motor Life-boat made to her Station, under her own power, as soon as her trials at Cowes had been...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
The Lyme Regis flag week coincided with the World Cup. One of the attractions zuas a stall on the front selling souvenirs. But fearing a diminished attendance during the game, the local organiser telephoned the B.B.C. at Bristol to obtain...
Category: Donations
Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1908
No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...
Category: Articles
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
Testing her mettle
The new RNLI memorial sculpture at Poole encapsulates the charity’s heritage and purpose – but who is behind its design?
It’s 7am and there’s a salty breeze blowing across the flats of Sittingbourne at the edge of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In Ireland
Organising Secretary for Ireland VERY few people who are not associ- ated with the Life-boat Service seem to know that the life-boats on the coasts of Eire are controlled by the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and that as far as the...
Category: Articles
Trent
Length 14.26m (46ft 9in) Beam 4.9m (16ft 1in) Displacement 27.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots Range 250 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Fibre Reinforced Composite (FRC). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (124)
AUGUST 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in flames six miles N.W. of Cromer, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £17 10s. 6d..
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Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were trapped by the tide...