LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fire Fly
Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.4 P.M. on the llth July the coastguard reported that a boat was in distress four and a half miles E.S.E. of Shoreham Harbour. A moderate S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
A Motor Boat (1)
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 7.20 on the evening of 7th of June. 1956, it was reported that two people had gone out in the afternoon in their motor boat to look at their lobster pots and had not returned. The life- boat H. F. Bailey put...
A Small Boat (4)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—3rd August.
Two boys in a small boat had drifted away from Cleethorpes, but reached land again without help.—Permanent crew: Rewards, 6s..
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
Category: Articles
Sugar Creek
POUNDING AGAINST PIER Dover, Kent. At 7.20 a.m. on 2gth November, 1965, the owner of the yacht Sugar Creek informed the life-boat mechanic that the yacht, from which he had just swum, had broken loose from her moorings in the inner harbour...
A Dinghy (1)
APRIL 7TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
Two men in a dinghy were missing, but nothing could be found. A donation was made to the Institution by Wrekin College and a gift from it was made by the Institution to the life-boat crew in...
(Above) a Modem Lifeboat Is Complex |Ust a Small Part of the Wiring Switches and Circuit Breakers for the Engine and Equipment In the Process of Inslallation
(Above) A modem lifeboat is complex... |ust a small part of the wiring, switches and circuit breakers for the engine and equipment in the process of inslallation.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat
Storm search THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY of Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat station was informed at 1428 on Saturday December 19, 1981, that a fishing boat had been seen to capsize and sink off Barry's Point. Maroons were fired and at...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.11 early on the morning of the 29th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a police report that an 18-feet rowing boat with one man aboard had gone fishing from Boddam but had not...
A Speed Boat (2)
Ilfracombe, North Devon. At 12.30 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a speed boat was observed broken down with three men on board off Morte Point. Distress flares had been fired and at 12.52 the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a...