LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Government Patrol Boat Lord De Ramsey
The Government patrol boat Lord fie Ramsey stranded at the entrance of Newhaven Harbour on the 9th April, during a moderate N.W. gale and rough sea. As it was feared that the crew were in danger the Motor Life-boat Sir FiizRoy Clayton was...
T.I.D. 66 and the S.S. Holdernook
Amble, Northumberland.—At 3.5 in the morning of the 6th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run aground at the harbour entrance and needed help, and at 3.10 the life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings. There was a...
St.Ives Lifeboat
St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall, is towed on her carriage from her boathouse to the ramp leading down to the harbour.. - View image in PDF
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Vivid, of Wessex
On the 13th September, the Cahore life- boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress from the schooner Vivid, of Wex- ford, which was stranded about a quarter of a mile from the shore close to Poulduff Pier.
The life...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
REQUEST FROM DUBLIN At 9.15 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the Irish Lights Office, Dublin, asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the Coningbeg lightvessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 9.55 in a moderate westerly...
On Board the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-Boat
(Coxswain James Coull and Lieut.-Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., Northern District Inspector.) The two boats travelled together from Cowes to Dundee in May, a distance of 503 miles, and the Aith life-boat then had 295 miles more to... - View image in PDF
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Looking Down on the Model With and Forecabin
Looking down on the model with the superstructure removed: ll to r} whee/house, engine room and forecabin. It is also possible to see down through the forecabin sole into the bilges. Every detail of the machinery, pipework and wiring is... - View image in PDF
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Bannprince and the S.S. Ocean Coast
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.3 on the night of the 12th of November, 1955, a message was received from the port radar station that a coaster had been sunk in a collision near Formby light-float. Seven minutes later the life-boat Norman B....
Lord Southborough Presenting the New Margate Motor Life-Boat to the Institution
Beside him it the Hon. George Colville, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management.. - View image in PDF
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Sethon
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.50 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, a message was received from the coast- guard that the steam trawler Sethon of Fleetwood was in difficulties at Church Bay, Rathlin. At 8.10 the life-boat Lady Scott...