LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Otra
On the 5th June, during a dense fog with a rough N.E. sea running and a moderate N.E.
breeze, a full-rigged ship ran ashore on the rocks opposite the end of the head- land sea wall. As quickly as possible the crew of the No...
Golden Harvest
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.23 on the night of the 16th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was ashore at the entrance to the north harbour. At 10.37 the life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth left...
Royal Visitors
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., visited the headquarters of the life-boat service at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, on 11th March. During his tour of the building the Duke of Kent visited all departments and met members of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sensitive
At 8 o'clock on the morning of October 19th intelligence reached the station of a vessel being on the north end of the Arklow Bank. It was then blowing a moderate gale from the S.E. with very high sea. The Life-boat Out-Pensioner was...
Premier
— On the night of the 5th January, it was re- ported to the coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner that a fishing yawl with five men on board was in the Bay and had made flares for assistance. As the sea was very heavy,...
Rosabelle
The steamer Bosabelle, of Chester, whilst bound from Garston to Waterford on the 7th November, struck a rock when in the vicinity of the Skerries, and stranded outside Cemlyn Point. The Life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched to her...
Penton
On the evening of the 20th April the coxswain received a message from the pier head that flares were burning in the Swatch- way, and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) put out at 10.52 P.M. A moderate S.W. wind was...
Yana
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.34 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress thirteen and a half miles south-east-by-east of Portland. At 5.55 the life-boat Mil- burn, on temporary...
A Pontoon and a Launch
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coxswain informed the honor- ary secretary that Messrs. Wimpey had requested the help of the life-boat, as one of their pontoons two miles north of Hartlepool was...
Bellbo
R.A.F. DESERTERS RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.35 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard at Warden Point reported a small yacht, with her engine broken down, drifting near forts on the Shivering Sands, and the...