LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Opposite Top: Phyl Cleare With Her Late Husband Jack at the Naming Ceremony of Phyl Clare In 1990
Opposite top: Phyl Cleare with her late husband Jack at the naming ceremony of Phyl Clare in 1990. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success left harbour for the fishing grounds at about 4 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938. A few hours later the wind got up rapidly, and by 10 A.M.
a gale...
A Year of War.
In the first year of war life-boats were launched to the rescue 1108 times and rescued 2302 lives. They rescued more lives in this one year of war than in the last five years of peace. They rescued on the average 44 lives a week. In the last...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Weather
THE weather in the British Islands forces itself so much on our attention, and is naturally such a constant topic of dis- cussion, that papers on the subject, especially when written by any one having access to the records of the Royal...
Category: Articles
The Weymouth Crabber Kael Coz
Four saved from grounded crabber In a letter from the chief of operations, Padstow lifeboat crew has been praised for a service which 'was carried out in dangerous conditions' and which 'called upon each of the crew's...
The Scarweather Lightship
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—-On the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1948, a message came from the Scarweather Lightship that a man had committed suicide on board, and as the Trinity House vessel was under repair, the life- boat, William...
Shamrock, of Liverpool
On the 5th Jan- uary the sloop Shamrock, of Liverpool, was seen at anchor in a distressed state in Wicklow Bay. There was a heavy gale blowing at the time, and she had lost some of her spars. The life-boat Robert Theophilus Garden was...
The Hartlepool Yawl
Hartlepool yawl HL 51 after being towed to safety by Sunderland life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fly, Pride of Rosslare and St. Joseph
PROPELLER FOULED BY NETS Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 7 o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1947, flares were seen in South Bay, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 7.20. A strong southerly...
Fishing Boat 106, of Arbroath
ARBROATH.—Notice was received at about 7 A.M. on the 23rd of January, during a fresh E. wind and a very heavy I sea, that the fishing boat 106, of Arbroath, was in danger outside the harbour bar.
The People's Journal No...