LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft (1)
APRIL 30TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A child had drifted away from Girvan on a raft, but was drowned before help could arrive. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..
A Bronze-Medal Service at Longhope
AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...
Category: Services
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Hastings, Sussex. — 13th October, 1937. Reports had been received that distress signals had been seen six miles S. by W., but nothing could be found.— Rewards, £50 4s. 6d..
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Barrow, Lancashire.—6th December.
Red flares had been reported eleven miles N.W. of Walney Light, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £17 6*. 6d..
Moelfre's Tyne Class Lifeboat Robert and Violet
The Tyne towed her some eight miles to safety, in conditions which can well be gauged from the photograph taken by the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arun
Length 16-16.55m (52ft-54ft 4in) D Q o m 17ft 9in (5.43m) Displacement 25.25-32.25 tons Speed 18 knots Range 230 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP), wood or steel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (186)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
A parachutist from an aeroplane had been seen descending eight miles from Peveril Point, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 1s..
The Red Cross of the Sea
"Peace hath her Victories No less renown'd than War."
THUS wrote the great poet of a war which he deemed, as we do our mighty conflict of to-day, one of Liberty against Tyranny, of the oppressed against...
Category: Articles
The Destroyer Javelin
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. The destroyer Javelin had been damaged in a naval engagement, and was on fire 15 miles S.E. of the life-boat station. After going out ten miles the lifeboat came within eight of the battle, asked for...
Sea Urchin and Rosalie
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, just after the life-boat Herbert Leigh had towed in the fishing boat Rosalie, the coxswain, who was on pilotage duty in Barrow docks, noticed that another fishing boat...