LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Allurity
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—About 4.15 in the morning on the 8th of November, 1950, the S.S. Allurity, of London, a tanker of 813 tons, wirelessed that she had a fire in her engine-room. Shortly after 7.0 the Foreland coastguard reported that...
Above the Lifeboat In Which He Carried Out the Rescue
above, the lifeboat in which he carried out the rescue, Charles Biggs, and her crew photographed two days after the event.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launch Zingari
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m.
on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor launch was sending up red flares off Sizewell in moderate seas and a gentle east-south-easterly breeze....
Charing Cross, and The Normandy 2
NOVEMBER 28TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat J. W. Archer was out on exercise.
She saw the tug Charing Cross, with two empty hoppers in tow, enter the Tees, and the...
The Eleanor and Jane
Information was received at 4.30 P.M.
on the 4th of April, during a moderate N.W. breeze, that a schooner was ashore on the North Stack, and required immediate assistance. The Thomas Fielding Life-boat was quickly taken out...
Francis Ann, of Goole
During a heavy gale from E.N.E. on the 20th March, the schooner Frances Ann, of Goole, anchored off this place. Soon afterwards the master, find- ing the vessel had sprung a leak and that her pumps were choked, slipped the cable and made for...
Peterborough Trader, of London
FEBRUARY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At four in the afternoon the coxswain saw a vessel putting up distress rockets about two miles east-south-east of Peterhead, and at 4.25 the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
The Size of Fab 3 Has Allowed Space for a Special Survivors' Cabin Below Decks Additional Seating Is Also Provided at the Aft End of the Wheelhouse
The size of FAB 3 has allowed space for a special survivors' cabin below decks, additional seating is also provided at the aft end of the wheelhouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winchman Ernie Bennett Activates the Winch Which With a V-Shaped Bridle of Special Flexible Wire Hauls the Lifeboat Clear of the Water
Winchman Ernie Bennett activates the winch which, with a V-shaped bridle of special flexible wire, hauls the lifeboat clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Finnish Steamer Alca
Appledore, Devon.—26th October, 1938.
The Finnish steamer Alca, of Mariehamn, had inadvertently burnt a red flare when signalling for a pilot. She did not want help from the life-boat.—• Rewards, £16 Is..