LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hyperion, of Harwich
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.50 P.M. on the 21st May a local boatman reported a small motor yacht in difficulties. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The yacht was the Hyperion, of Harwich. She had been taken in tow by a Dutch...
and Model Making: (Above) a Model of the 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat John Fison Stationed
. . . and model making: (above) a model of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat John Fison stationed at Harwich. This model, made by Rodnev Morlock, an Enthusiast from Felixstowe, is scratch built but using a pre-cast GRP hull.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trust On, of Peterhead
JANUARY 31ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 in the evening, the coastguard reported a boat showing distress signals a mile and a half north of Peterhead, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Reclaim, of Lowestoft
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 10th June the steam drifter Reclaim, of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on Middle Beach, West Angle Bay. A moderate west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but the weather...
Thornton, of New York
On the 6th December, the ship Thornton, of New York, was stranded on the West Middle Sand off Liverpool during a fresh gale of wind, and subsequently became a total wreck. The Willie and Arthur life- boat went off, and brought ashore the...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 170, 181 and 194, the following launches on service were made during the months of March to May, 1966, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Rescue In the Old Days
Plaster panels recently modelled for the Ship Hotel, at Cromer, The photographs are reproduced by kind permission of the Morgan Brewery Company. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Hayling Island Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
The Hayling Island Atlantic 21 lifeboat - an easy boat to manhandle if necessary should she run aground when working in the shallow waters of the harbours in the area.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio...
Category: Services
Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby Lifeboat
Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs