LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DECEMBER 1ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair Isle, was in urgent need of a doctor. A S. by W. gale...
Harrow Branch
Readers digest?- Or is it the currant issue of the journal? This appetising and skilfully iced cake was the prize in a raffle organised by the newly formed Harrow branch when they were asked to take part in an open-air fund raising event run... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Cullercoats Life-Boat In Cowes Building Yard
New Cullercoats Life-Boat In Cowes Building Yard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
Buckie, Banffshire - At 12.20 a.m. on 10th September, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht or fishing boat was in distress in the vicinity of Covesea Skerries, Lossiemouth. The life-boat Laura Moncur slipped...
Rooky's Challenge
In July, chartered surveyor Paul Rocky successfully completed the Avon challenge - a 50 mile row upstream along the Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford - to raise cash for the lifeboats.
• Paul's time (excluding stops)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trawlers
At about 3 P.M. on the 21st March, during a gale from the S.S.W., a number of the big trawlers belonging to Penzance, which had been at anchor off Newlyn, ran for Penzance Harbour for shelter. Several of the steam drifters also started to...
Service to St.Margarite
Service to St Margarite: On the evening of December 22. 1979. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Kliami rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel St Margarite aground on Scrohy Sands in a strong north-easterly...
Category: Services
Sirius
TOW TO RAMSGATE At 10.32 a.m. on the following day the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a yacht was making heavy weather on passage off Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 10.45 i° a...
Monk
Wicklow.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1954, a man at Brittas Bay telephoned that the yacht Monk, which had been stolen from Dun Laoghaire, was in Brittas Bay.
No one was aboard, and as no other boat was...
Carol Sandra and Northwind III
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...