LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R. W. Jackson, Tranquil and Martha Dryden
WHITBY.—On the 21st February, at about 5.30 P.M., while a gale was blowing from N.W.,with a rough sea, thick weather and snow, four fishing-cobles which had put into the bay on the previous evening were returning to the harbour. It was seen...
Maggie Smith, the Sunshine and Girl Mary
Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
The S.S. Rustoer and the S.S. Challenger
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 10 A.M. on the 24th January, during a strong S.E. gale with a very rough sea, the s.s. Rustoer, of Glasgow, was dragging her anchor and drifting off the pier. Only the captain and a boy were aboard her. The...
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-Boat
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Category: Photographs
A Sailing Boat and Ampico 2
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6.55 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was making very heavy weather five miles south-south-west of Mumbles Head. At 7.10 the life-boat William...
Padstow Life-Boat and R.A.F. Rescue Launch
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Category: Photographs
Deo Gratias and Motor Boat Bella Betty
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1952, a resident of Overton telephoned that a fishing boat had fired two red rockets and that her crew ap- peared to be trying to hold her on to Port Eynon Buoy. At...
The S.S. Sydenham and the S.S. Ask
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 4.32 on the morning of the 26th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned to say the S.S. Sydenham had reported that a vessel was ashore on the Haisboro' Sands, eighteen miles east-by-south of Cromer, and at five...
The Sand Boats Wisbech, Lintie and Kinfauns
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1956, a director of the Tay Sand Co., Ltd., telephoned to say that two sand boats were dredging above the Tay Bridge and were now heavily laden.
A...