LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Maggie and The Keel Boat Albatross
During the morning of 12th February, while four boats were at sea line fishing and crab catching, a heavy sea got up at the back of the pier, which made it dangerous for the boats to enter the harbour. The weather was very cold with snow...
A Welsh Coxswain and His Motor Mechanic
Coxswain Richard Jones, of Holyhead. with Motor Mechanic Gilbert E. Barrs, now at New Brighton, (See pages 82 on/99.) B«. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Steam Drifters and Five Motor Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.15 A.M.
on the 28th March, 1939, a message was received from the Anstruther coastguard that there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance and that the fishing fleet was returning. A moderate...
The S.S. Archon and The S.S. Treherbert
At 11.17 P.M. on the 6th September the coxswain received a message from the Ramsgate coastguard that two ships had been in collision off N.E. Spit buoy. They were the s.s.
Archon, of Syra, Greece, bound with a cargo of...
Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy
The local fishing cobles Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy put to sea at 7 A.M. to haul lines which had been shot overnight.
The weather was fair. By 11 A.M. a north gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast (1)
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
Tern and the Trinity Vessel Reculver
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 8.45 A.M. on the 18th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Tern, of London, appeared to be showing signals about one and a half miles E.N.E. from Britannia...
Snowflake, Our Boys and Evening Star
Arbroath, Angus. At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 28th September, 1961, three local fishing boats, Snowflake, Our Boys and Evening Star, were approaching the harbour in a strong south-south-easterly wind and a rough sea. Because of the...
The S.S. Kirsten Skou and Karpfanger
DANISH AND GERMAN SHIPS TN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 5.29 on the morning of the 29th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two ships had been in collision six miles north of Dover. The life-boat Southern Africa...
TAX CHANGES and the INSTITUTION's FUNDS
% One little publicised effect of the reversion, after six years, to a 7s. 9d. in the £ standard rate of income tax, proposed by the present Chancellor, is that upon the revenues of bodies such as the R.N.L.I.
On...
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