LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
THANKS TO 'WONDERFUL PEOPLE' While on holiday in the Isle of Man in September we visited the Life-boat station at Port Erin. We read the boat's record with great interest, and the members on duty tending the boat were welcoming,...
Category: Correspondence
Mia Madre E.
RAMSGATE AND DEAL.—On the 25th August, at about 3 A.M., signals were shown from the Gull Light-ship, and the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, and the Van Kook Life-boat, stationed at Deal, proceeded to the Goodwin...
Classification of Service Launches of Life-Boats for 1970 Compared With1969
Classification of service launches of life-boats for 7970 compared with 7969 Class —Naval vessels —Foreign going merchant vessels —Home trade merchant vessels —Commercial fishing vessels —Powered pleasure craft —Sailing pleasure craft...
Category: Services
Rescue at Sea
• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...
Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Ilb Crew Member H E "Dilly" Appleton With the Youngest of 121 People Taken Off the Pleasure Cruiser Queen of the Broads Which Ra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: ILB Crew Member H. E. "Dilly" Appleton with the youngest of 121 people taken off the pleasure cruiser Queen of the Broads which ran aground on Breydon Water in thick fog on Tuesday June 19. After being... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Travel Offers Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Remagio
JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
Maggie Wood
AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Bocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...
The Sailing Boat Roustabout
JAN. 3RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the morning the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat...