LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blanche and Sally
TWO BOATS FOUND At 10.26 a.m. on ipth August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's second coxswain that two fishing boats near Blakeney Overfalls were reported to be making very heavy weather and would probably need to be...
Hilda II and Rachel
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 12th of August, 1951, the local fishing cobles Hilda II and Rachel were at sea. The weather got worse and they felt anxious for them; so at 9.8 the life-boat E.C.J.R. was launched in a...
Corallo and Nopal Branco
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th of March, 1957, it was reported that the motor vessels Corallo, of Trieste, and Nopal Branco, of Oslo, had been in collision and that...
Meggies and My Gratitude
Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the night of the 24th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain super- intendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had reported red flares five miles north- east of the lightvessel. The life-boat City of...
Groves and Guttridge Ltd.
GROVES AND 6UTTRIDGE LTD.
EAST AND WEST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Wood and Steel Boat Building Completion of Glass Fibre Hulls Refitting and Storage Contractors to: R.N.L.I., Trinity House, Ministry of Defence and Private...
Category: Advertisement
Here and There
IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...
Category: Articles
Provider and Elizabeth Isabel
Amble, Northumberland - At 7.35 a.m. on ist November, 1966, the cobles Provider and Elizabeth Isabel were still at sea with conditions at the harbour bar worsening in the ebb tide. The life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings at 7.45....
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour:
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Father and Son Unite
son unite Clacton lifeboat crew were sorry to say goodbye to crewman and mechanic Dave Carvey as he reached the inshore lifeboat retirement age of 45.
However, there was some comfort for them in the arrival of another of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs