LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight—At 6.16 P.M. on the llth May, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard at Cliff End that a motor launch off Barton-on-Sea had broken down, and that its occupants were waving clothing to attract attention. As...
A District Conference
A conference of the branches of the Outer London District was held at the offices of the Institution on March 10th. Commodore the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.D., P.C., A.D.C., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the Institution, presided, supported by Sir...
Category: Meetings
Clipper of Great Yarmouth
On the night of the 24th January, dating a heavy gale from S.S.W., guns were heard from the St.
Nicholas Light Vessel, and rockets were thrown up, indicating a vessel in distress.
The crew of the large...
Tramore ILB was twice thrown clear by large breaking seas before the boy stranded on a rocky islet in Ronan's Bay
Tramore ILB was twice thrown clear by large breaking seas before the boy stranded on a rocky islet in Ronan's Bay could be reached. Helmsman Frank Partridge and crew members Mr David Kenneally and Mr Sean Walsh have all received the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
December 28 1973: Engineer from the Hull Trawler Lord Nelson With Badly Fractured Leg Being Taken Abroad Calouste Gulbenkian on Relief Duty at Bridlington
December 28, 1973: engineer from the hull trawler * *~ Lord Nelson, with badly fractured leg, being taken abroad Calouste Gulbenkian, on relief duty at Bridlington. It was the second service for the lifeboat and her crew in an | hour and a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gloamin'
— On the morning of the llth January a man was injured on board the local fishing boat Gloamin'. There was not suffi- cient water for the boat to get into harbour and she made distress signals.
The crew of the...
A Small Boat (2)
— On the evening of the 1st June the coast- guard telephoned that a small boat, with two youths on board, was drifting seawards out of control. A strong squally S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat M.O.Y.E....
Livlig
Eyemouth.—Shortly before noon on the 6th March, when a whole S.S.E. .
gale was blowing, the Coastguard re- j ported that a vessel was in distress off j St. Abbs Head, and in urgent need of j assistance. The Eyemouth...
Coxswain/Asst. Mechanic Brian Patten. Achill Island
Coxswain/Asst. Mechanic Brian Patten.
Achill Island Received the Silver Medal (or u service to a fishing vessel in atrocious weather conditions, "...he pushed the lifeboat lo her limit m ihe hea y sea.' See the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rome
CLACTON-ON-SKA.—About noon on the 2nd September a gale was blowing from the S.S.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea, and as several vessels were lying off the coast, and riding heavily at their anchors, the crew of the Life-boat Albert...