LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blackpool Push the Boat Out
Members of the Blackpool lifeboat crew and ladies guild quite literally pushed the boat out on 10 September 1995, raising over £167 for RNLI funds.
An inflatable D class lifeboat was pushed along the promenade to North... - View image in PDF
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A Motor Cruiser (1)
MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY AID OF SEARCHLIGHT Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down, had run out of fuel and was drifting...
The French Naval Vessel Victorieuse
Dungeness, Kent.—There was fog in the morning of the 2nd of March, 1948, and at 8.20 distress signals were heard. At 8.45 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea, and...
Mystery
CAISTER.—On the 6th November, flare lights having been seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden proceeded out, and found the fishing-smack Mystery, of Great Yar- mouth, just off the sand. She was partly...
Hermann
On the morning of the 25th February signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Mid Scroby Sand. A heavy sea was running at the time, and a strong wind was blowing from the N. The Lifeboat Beauchamp was launched at about 3...
Ferry Boat
GORLESTON.—The dandy Ferry Boat, of Great Yarmouth, bound on a mackerel fishing voyage, stranded on the South Scroby Sand in thick weather, a rough sea, and a strong wind from N.E. by N., on the 7th Jane. She showed a signal of distress, and...
The Danube, of Belfast
On the evening of the 6th March, a ship was seen to be aground on St. Patrick's Causeway, 10 miles from Criccieth, where the life-boat is stationed. At 9 p.m. the life-boat pro- ceeded to her aid, under oars, against a heavy westerly...
The S.S. Carlston
Between 7 and 8 A.M. on the 8th March a steamer was observed on the Formby Spit, and as the westerly wind was in- creasing the Coxswain launched the Life-boat John and Henrietta. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the...
Altivo, of Lisbon
On the night of the 23rd February, a vessel was ob- served on shore inside the South Tail Sand- bank, Bideford Bay. The wind was blowing a gale at the time from W.N. W. The Hope life-boat was promptly launched, and pro- ceeded towards the...
Thurrock Branch Members Turned a Derelict Ship's Lifeboat Given to the Branch Chairman Sherwin a Chase By a Grays Firm of Ship Breakers Into An Oakley Lifeboat 'Replica' She Is Named Henry
Thurrock branch members turned a derelict ship's lifeboat given to the branch chairman, Sherwin A.
Chase, by a Grays firm of ship breakers into an Oakley lifeboat 'replica'. She is named Henry de Grey and now is... - View image in PDF
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