LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M.F.V. Gratitude
MFV sinks MFV GRATITUDE, on passage from Lerwick to Macduff, sent a MAYDAY distress call at 0133 on Sunday April 24 to say that she had struck rock at Sumburgh Head; she was still afloat but needed immediate help. Shetland Coastguard...
April (1)
ANNAN WATERFOOT, DUMFRIES-SHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1943, a Beaufort aeroplane crashed and exploded in the Solway Firth, about half a mile south-east of Annan Waterfoot. The sea was calm, with a light westerly...
Category: Services
Classification of Services By Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies, etc.
Landing...
Category: Services
Sophia, of Naples
On the 25th of November the services of the Ramsgate life-boat were again brought into requisition. At daybreak on that day, the wind blowing a heavy gale at the time from N.N.W., a brigantine was observed, with signals of distress flying,...
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescueboats during 1942 During the year life-boats were launched 443 times. Of these launches 244 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the...
Category: Services
Moss Bay
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
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Father and son stranded FOUR MINUTES from the time the honorary secretary was alerted, Hastings' 16ftD class inflatable lifeboat was launched, manned by Helmsman Chris Cooper and Crew Members Graham Furness and Steven Martin. It was 1604...
Lucy (1)
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
(Right) One of 20 Lifeboat Models Made By Jeff Morris and Used In a Number of Displays and Fund-Raising Events In the Coventry Area on Sunday January 30 the Mo
(Right) One of 20 lifeboat models made by Jeff Morris and used in a number of displays and fund-raising events in the Coventry area.
On Sunday, January 30, the models farmed the focal point of a lifeboat service at Radford... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Highland Fling
During a very dense fog on the afternoon of the 7th January sound signals were heard not far from the shore, and although the weather was fine, there being only a slight ground swell, it was considered advisable to launch the Life-boat. The...