LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gudveig of Oslo (2)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
Scotland Community news
MAKING WAVES IN DUNBAR
In January, a group of young surfers from the Wave Project – an organisation that helps young people reduce anxiety and increase confidence through its award-winning surf courses – paid a visit to...
Category: Articles
Weymouth - South Division
Weymouth's sheltered and relatively deep harbour enables the station's Arun class to lie afloat - visible between the piles to the right of the harbour in the centre of the main photo.
The Arun can be seen more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's First Gold Medallist
AT the end of the first Annual Report of the Institution, published on 10th March, 1825, is a list of thirty-two services for which it had given rewards during its first year. The first of these services took place on 10th July, 1824, and...
Category: Medals
Fishing Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 10.15 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938, the coxswain saw from the boat-house thatseveral fishing boats were in trouble between Southend Pier and the Mid Shoebury Buoy. Some of them ran for shelter. The sea was very...
Several Vessels
WATCHMEN TAKEN OFF SHIPS WHEN HARBOUR IS FROZEN Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.50 on the morning of the 21st January, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone call from the agent of a number of shipping companies, several of whose...
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...
Fishing Cobles (3)
Seven fishing cobles went off early in the morning of the 6th April to their crab-pots, but when the time came for their returning, the entrance to the harbour was very dangerous owing to the strong easterly sea and the outset of the tide....
A Boat (3)
APRIL 29TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 12.25 in the afternoon the coastguard at Hope Cove reported that eight men in a 16-feet boat had stranded on Book Rock near Thurlestone. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the men, who were...
The S.S. St. Patrick
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — During the morning of the 28th February the Great Western Railway local marine superintendent asked if the motor lifeboat White Star would place a crew on board the railway's s.s. St. Patrick, which was lying...