LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Elizabeth Taylor and Incentive
Whitby, Yorkshire. — About 8.45 on the night of the 28th of September, 1951, news was picked up by wireless that two fishing boats had been in collision eight miles off Whitby to the east. They needed help; and at nine o'clock the No. 1...
Sirocco, of Port Wrinkle
Fowey, Cornwall - At 9.10 a.m. on 2nd September, 1966, a yacht was thought to have capsized between Looe and Polperro.
The life-boat Deneys Reitz proceeded at 9.20 in a strong westerly wind with a moderate sea. It was one...
The S.S. Traviata, Steamer Marte and Trawler H.M. Holyrood
JANUARY 11TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. At 10.39 A.M., the coastguard reported explosions about eight miles to the N.N.E. of Cromer. The weather was cold, with a light easterly wind blowing and a smooth sea. At 10.45 A.M. the Cromer...
The S.S. Traviata, Steamer Marte and Trawler H.M. Holyrood (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. At 10.39 A.M., the coastguard reported explosions about eight miles to the N.N.E. of Cromer. The weather was cold, with a light easterly wind blowing and a smooth sea. At 10.45 A.M. the Cromer...
St. Austell, of Barnstaple
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 13th June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about five miles N.N.E. of Clodgy Point was making distress signals. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
Silver Jubilee Postscript from Torbay: on August 5 Torbay Lifeboat the 54' Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No 37) Escorted the Royal Barge Bringing Hm The
Silver Jubilee postscript . . . from Torbay: On August 5, Torbay lifeboat the 54' Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), escorted the royal barge bringing HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ashore from MMS... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's Treasurer
THE Earl of Harrowby, who has been the Institution's treasurer since 1899, resigned in November, 1946, and the Duke of Montrose, chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a vicepresident of the Institution has accepted the...
Category: Articles
The English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 7.25 on the evening of the24th of August, 1953, the Nells Point coastguard rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had been damaged in a storm and was...
The S.S. Southern Broom
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.44 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the coast- guard telephoned that the S.S.
Southern Broom was making for Yar- mouth with a badly injured man aboard. He asked if...
Gudveig and the Latvian Steamer Everene (1)
JANUARY 25TH. - HOLY ISLAND, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Norwegian steamer Gudveig, of Oslo, and the Latvian steamer Everene, of Riga, had been sunk by mine or torpedo, but other steamers had picked up a...