LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Cabin-Cruiser Diana II
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30...
The American Tugs L.T.23 and L.T.61
OCTOBER 11TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported three tugs, with floating cranes in tow, dragging their anchors in St. Ives Bay, and drifting towards the Stones Reef, off Godrevy Point....
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FOUR YOUNG MEN RESCUED FROM ROCKS Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 7th July, 1962, the coastguard told the second coxswain of a police report from Seaton Carew that four young men had been cut off by the tide on...
Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches
THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...
Category: Articles
The 18Th International Conference
The 18th International Conference Delegates representing 27 different countries were given a very full programme to follow during the 18th International Lifeboat Conference held in the week of the flotilla at the Royal Bath Hotel in...
Category: Meetings
(Below) the Fishing Vessel Boy Andrew Sinks As She Is Towed
(Below) The fishing vessel Boy Andrew sinks as she is towed clear by a powerful trawler and Soldian closes in. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heilo
On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.
gale was blowing with a...
REMEMBERING PRINCESS VICTORIA
31 January 1953. A storm is building that will cause one of the UK’s worst natural disasters. Despite the gale warnings, at 7.45am the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria begins her regular passage across the Irish Sea. She will never...
Category: Articles
Dozmare
Moelfre, Anglesey.—During the afternoon of the 6th June, 1938, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht had been reported making heavy weather about four miles out to sea. Owing to bad visibility, it was not possible to...
The S.S. Southern Broom
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.44 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the coast- guard telephoned that the S.S.
Southern Broom was making for Yar- mouth with a badly injured man aboard. He asked if...