LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Articles
The Schooner-Rigged S.S. Cerigo (1)
WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.
—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...
(Above) a Long Service for Donaghadee Lifeboat: on July 17 1956 Mv Douglas of Bergen Went Ashore at the Maidens on An Ebbing Tide Sir Samuel Kelly Slipping Her M
(Above) A long service for Donaghadee lifeboat: On July 17, 1956, MV Douglas, of Bergen, went ashore at the Maidens on an ebbing tide. Sir Samuel Kelly, slipping her moorings at 0830, found her hard and fast on the rocks, holed and taking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mumbles Lifeboat Appeal
The road between John O'Groats and Land's End is lined with gold—at least for charities it is. Andrew Jones (I) and Robert Denner (r), are seen here being given a send-off by the Lord Mayor of Swansea, Councillor Michael Murphy,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Rowing Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7 P.M. on the 3rd August the coxswain saw from the North Pier a small rowing boat about a mile out in the direction of the Newcome Sands. The weather was squally, with a W.N.W. wind and a choppy...
Antoinette (1)
PORT ISAAC and PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
—Oa the morning of the 2ad January a barque, which proved to be the Antoinette, of St. John, New Brunswick, bound from Newport for Santos with coals, was observed about eight miles distant...
Lord Douglas of Dundee
On the 26th October, 1859, the schooner Lord Douglas of Dundee, parted from her anchors in a heavy gale from- the south, and foundered off the village of Gorton, on the Suffolk coast. The Lowestoft life-boat proceeded under sail to the spot,...
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Tenby
RESCUEE RETURNS WITH THANKS
James Probert says he ‘simply would not be here’ if not for the quick and professional response of his rescuers. The 58-year-old father of four collapsed in a car park...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
LOSSIEMOUTH.—On the 1st January, 1861 the sloop Thomas and Jane, of Dundee carried away her main boom, and having nearly four feet of water in her hold, and the master and crew being quite exhausted hoisted a signal of distress, which was...
Category: Services
Frederick Carel (1)
RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.
At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...