LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mavan
Caister, Norfolk.—The pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 7 A.M. on the 25th April, as a vessel had stranded on the west side of the Barber Sands. She found the yacht Mavan, with two men on board, on the sands N.W....
Batory, of Gydnia
At 6.30 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Batory of Gydnia had embarked a sick man from the weather ship Weather Adviser. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 8 o'...
Swanage - Mersey Class Robert Charles Brown
The new Mersey class Robert Charles Brown waits at the head of the slipway during her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Club VIPS
Club VIPs hand over the cheque for the proceeds of the cocktail party to local RNLI branch chairman Richard Bushe. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.
CHAS. G. TURNER, C.B., Mr. CHAS. DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the...
Category: Meetings
Abyssinia
On the following day the Kingsdowne Life-boat put off while it was blowing strongly from the S.W., and remained for some time alongside the ship Abyssinia, which had gone on the Goodwin Sands, but which was got off the Sands with the aid of...
Gwydyr Castle
On the night of the 20th March the harbour tug and the Life-boat Bradford were again called out to the assistance of the barque Gwydyr Castle, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the north end of the Goodwin Sands while bound from Port Pirie...
Wilson, of Whitehaven
On the 2nd Feb. the Life-boat on the south side, or at Mornington, was trans- ported by land to Bettystown Strand, and launched therefrom to the assistance of the schooner Wilson, of Whitehaven, which was wrecked off there during a strong...
Fishing Yawls
, YOBKSHIBK. — On the morning of Sunday, the 2nd September, the wind blew a fresh gale from the S.S.E. Several fishing yawls were lying at anchor in the bay, and, the sea being heavy, their crews were unable to go off to them in their own...
Lady's Page
SCABBOBOUGH. — The fishing smack Lady's Page, of Scarborough, while running for the harbour during a strong S.S.E. wind and a very heavy, sea at 1 A.M.
on the 22nd of February, grounded outside the outer pier. A flare...