LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
Sir Samuel Kelly, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Courtmacsherry Harbour tows in Casse Tete V during the Fastnet storm. In all that day, Tuesday August 14, 1979, Courtmacsherry lifeboat, under the command of Coxswain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Children Rescued from Cabin Cruiser
ON the afternoon of 16th September, 1962, Mr. Kenneth Johnson and his brother, Mr. Frank Johnson, with six of their children aged between two and twelve, went on board Mr. Kenneth Johnson's cabin cruiser, which was one of the Dolphin...
Category: Services
A Yacht (2)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—3 r d August, 1938. After lights had been seen and calls for help heard from a yacht a search was made, but nothing was found, and it is assumed that the yacht had got away on the rising tide.— Rewards, £4 8s....
A Lighter
DECEMBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A lighter, with one man in her, had broken away from a tug which had her in tow, but when she struck the beach he got safely ashore.- Rewards, £11 14s..
Salty sea dog
13 October 2011: Mallaig lifeboat crew rescued a family of four people and two dogs from a tidal island, after their dinghy had drifted away. One four-legged family member really enjoyed his trip on the Severn’s...
Category: Articles
Poly, Mary, Congress Bell and Sheila
On the 19th September four fishing boats which had left har- bour early in the morning were seen to be in trouble five or six miles north of the harbour. A moderate S.S.E. gale had sprung up, bringing a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor...
Lizzie
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—Two boys put out from Sunderland in the small boat Lizzie on the night of the 19th September, but soon got into difficulties, and their boat drifted about all night.
Next day the second coxswain of...
Heron
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of September, 1959, a message was re- ceived that the motor boat Heron, which had a man and his wife on board and was towing a small dinghy, had not returned from a...
Valhalla
FISHING BOAT TAKES YACHT IN TOW Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht needed help three miles east-north-east of Spurn lighthouse but that a...
Rodent
Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on- Sea, Essex. At 4.20 p.m. on 2yth November, 1965, the Clacton coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that red flares had been seen north-east of Mouse. The Clacton-on-Sea...