LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Buccari
JANUARY 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.45 P.M. a message was received that one of the crew of the Italian steamer Buccari, which was anchored in the Downs, was seriously injured and needed medical attention.
A light easterly...
Knit One Sell One
Keen knitter, Mrs Lillian Hammond, a resident of a nursing home in Hunstanton, has raised £80 for Hunstanton lifeboat through the making and selling of soft toys. Mrs Hammond, who is bed-ridden, sells the toys to friends, visitors and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Motor Patrol Boats No. 1091, and No. 1086
AUGUST 23RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
About six o’clock in the evening the coastguard reported a small motor vessel aground at the mouth of the River Ugie, two miles north of Peterhead, with a fishing boat standing by....
Neptunia (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.
The Thurso life-boat was also...
The S.S. Commar
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 6.46 A.M. on the llth October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported a message received from Yarmouth that a vessel had apparently grounded on the Scroby Sands. A light S.W. wind...
When the Workington Life-Boat Was on Exercise on 24Th April 1968
When the Workington life-boat was on exercise on 24th April, 1968, it was directed to take a body off a fishing boat. Here one of the crew is landing from the Manchester and Salford XXIX.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eastern Princess
RECORD NUMBER LANDED Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.2 on Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pleasure boat Eastern Princess, of Yarmouth, had run aground in...
Fairey Allday Marine
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Fairey Allday craft are in service in the UK with the Royal Navy, Army,...
Category: Advertisement
Foreign Life-Boat Stations
As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...
Category: Articles
Hazel
NOVEMBER 20TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At 11.45 in the morning the motor life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched in a northerly wind and a heavy sea. She found the motor fishing boat Hazel, in difficulties, one mile west of Ramore...