LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) Weymouth Lifeboat the 52' Barnett Frank Spiller Locke Leaving Harbour at 1507 on Thursday June 12 to Help Four Canoeists Reported In Difficulty Off Bowleaze Co
(Below) Weymouth lifeboat, the 52' Barnett Frank Spiller Locke, leaving harbour at 1507 on Thursday, June 12, to help four canoeists reported in difficulty off Bowleaze Cove. The wind was gale force north-north-easterly, the sea rough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MUD RESCUE MORECAMBE 18 MAY
A 14-year-old girl was rescued by Morecambe lifeboat crew after being trapped up to her waist in mud for 90 minutes. Morecambe’s inshore rescue hovercraft crew, accompanied by a Coastguard rescue helicopter, headed to the scene, locating the...
Category: Articles
Parthia
Trent saves five in gale force winds and very heavy seas When a northerly gale is blowing against a spring tide conditions in the English Channel near the island of Alderney can be very unpleasant indeed. It was in just these conditions that...
The S.S. Heire
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 5.17 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel was in distress, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 6 P.M. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The lifeboat...
Kathleen
Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1948, during a dense fog, the coast- guard rang up to say that the skipper of a motor boat had reported passing the local fishing vessel Kathleen near Longnose Buoy and that...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—THE BIGHT Hon. EARL PERCY, P.G.
THE COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT have to state that, during...
Category: Advertisement
Pacific (1)
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...
Coxswain Robert Patton of Runswick
JUST after four in the morning of 8th February, 1934, the life-boat station at Runswick, Yorkshire, re- ceived a message from the coastguard that distress signals were being fired five miles N.N.E. of Staithes Nab. A gale was blowing from...
Category: Obituaries
The Last Launch of the Adrianne De Bruine at Ameland
The last launch of the Adrianne de Bruine at Ameland. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ofelia
CREW OF SWEDISH VESSEL LANDED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.20 on the morning of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was ashore on Fladdachuain Island three miles west of Trodday Island....