LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above) at Twickenham and District
(Above) At Twickenham and District branch's annual RNLJ ball, held at York House, Twickenham, on January 23, over £1,000 was raised by the tombola and raffle, for which more than 500 items were donated by local... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dungeness - Mersey Pride and Spirit
Mrs Jean Cass names the new Dungeness lifeboat Pride and Spirit (left) before her demonstration launch from the beach (right). - View image in PDF
Photos Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Famous Coxswains, Serving and Retired:
Famous coxswains, serving and retired: Arthur Curnow, Frank Smith, Edward Hannaford and Brian Cater - with retired lifeboats Baltic Air and Mabel Holland. - View image in PDF
Photo: Jeremy Greenaway. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Minnie and Star of Hope
MARCH 14TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.46 A.M. four Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing ground. As the weather was threatening, two of the boats returned, but the other two began fishing.
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Thomas, Yorkshire Lass and Mischief
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 7th February, at about 6 P.M., the ketch Thomas, of Lynn, while endeavouring to make Hartlepool Harbour, went ashore near the Beacon Rocks. A gale from the S.S.E. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy sea....
Susan and Isabella, of Dundee
At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...
Agnes and Mary, of Glasgow
Early on the morning of the 30th May, the smack Agnes and Mary, of Glasgow, struck on the rocks off this place, during a strong northerly wind and heavy surf. The Groomsport life-boat put off, and brought the master of the smack safely...
The Rialto and The Spes
At 6.30 P.M. on the 24th March during a S.S.W. gale, two fishing vessels, the Spes, of Brixham, and the Sialto, of Ramsgate, were wrecked at Newhaven. It was reported that a smack, whilst trying to make the harbour had struck to the eastward...
A Fishing Boat and Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 3.18 p.m. on zyth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had been called out from Mudeford under the inshore rescue scheme to the help of another boat firing...
Yvonne Risager and May Queen
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 6.50 on the morning of the 19th of July, 1957, the coxswain received a telephone message that the motor fishing vessel Yvonne Risager was in difficulties with a fouled propeller ten miles west of May Island.