LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship’s Life-Boat
DEC. 13TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from Ross Lighthouse that a ship’s life-boat had been seen drifting a mile and a half south of the lighthouse. A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. At 2.15 P.M. the...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday workers through- out the country, after reviewing the year's campaign thus far conducted, may well congratulate themselves on the very satisfactory results they have secured.
Taking all things...
Category: Articles
Emma, of Shields
On the 5th January, the barque Emma, of Shields, was driven on the Red- car rocks, near the River Tees, on the York- shire coast. The Redcar life-boat was at once manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew. After getting twice alongside...
A Small Metal Dinghy
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coxswain heard that a small metal dinghy with an outboard motor had not been seen since three o'clock. He informed the coastguard, and at 5.0 the life-boat The...
The End of the Beginning
On 30 November 1993 the Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooperarrived at Aldeburgh to mark the beginning of a new era - an era in which there are fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's stations.
It was also...
Category: Articles
Here and There
AN RNLI JUBILEE FAYRE, organised by a committee representing several North Cornwall branches, will be held on the Royal Agricultural Show grounds, Wadebridge, on Wednesday, August 24.
The grounds have kindly been made...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boat (1)
JANUARY 15TH . - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. A small Newbiggin fishing boat, bound from North Sunderland to Amble, had been reported overdue, but nothing could be found, and on the following day the boat was towed in by a Craster...
A Boat (1)
MARCH 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
The Gourdon coastguard reported a small boat adrift off Johns-haven, and at 11.10 A.M.. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A light southerly wind was blowing, but there...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Peel and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—• 23rd July. A fishing boat had not returned to Peel with the fleet, but she was found by a trawler which joined the life-boats in the search.—Rewards, Peel, £10 4s. 6d; Port Erin, £7 2s..
Aberdeen: Bp Forties Was Named (R) By Mrs David Steel Photograph By Courtesy of Aberdeen Journals
Aberdeen: BP Forties was named (r.) by Mrs David Steel. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen Journals.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs