LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Cutter
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.50 on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with two people aboard had capsized four miles north-east of Durban Point. At six o'clock the life- boat Watkin...
Penthesilea (1)
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the 11th of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
A Cabin Cruiser
Arbroath, Angus - At 10.40 a.m.
on 13th August, 1967, the motor mechanic was informed that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties near Fairway buoy at the mouth of the Tay. A yacht in the vicinity had been unable to tow the...
The Mayor of Pendle Councillor Peggy Heaton
Seventy years after the hospital ship Rohilla was driven ashore off the Yorkshire coast, a party of Whitby townspeople put to sea in Whitby's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, The White Rose of Yorkshire, to lay wreaths above the wreck. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M.F.V. Hatcliffe
Long tow FORTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Eyemouth lifeboat station at about 1235 on Friday March 25, 1983, that MFV Hatdiffe had broken down and was anchored 4V2 miles north east of St Abbs Head, seven miles north north...
June
MAY 31ST. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Men had been reported aboard an R.A.F. target raft, but they were cormorants which flew away as the life-boat approached. - Rewards, £8 1s.and towed her to a berth in Walton River.
She...
Category: Services
The Induna, of Egremont and The Yachts, The Puffin, Sheila, and Pastime
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
The Induna, of Egremont and The Yachts, The Puffin, Sheila, and Pastime (1)
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
The Sailing Boat Gladys
Moelfre, Angelsey. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a sailing boat had overturned in Red Wharf Bay. At 2.30 the life- boat Watkin Williams was launched in a choppy sea....
The S.S. Monarch
At 9.5 P.M. on the 2nd March the life-boat watchman reported that a steamer had drifted ashore on the Inner Binks. She was in a dangerous position, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched. A light, but freshening...