LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ageroen
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—A flare was observed by a fisherman at about 4.30 A.M. on the llth January, apparently caused by burning tar-barrels on board a vessel on the rocks at Nabb Point. The weather at the time was foggy, the windwas...
Heroic Women of Boulmer
ON the morning of 24th March, a very cold morning, with a heavy sea running, the Boulmer Life-boat was launched to stand by seven returning fishing boats of Craster, which, owing to the heavy seas breaking right across the Bar, would find it...
Category: Articles
Leto
At 3.25 A.M. on the 22nd April the Coastguard reported that the North Goodwin was firing sig- nals, and shortly afterwards a barque was reported ashore. The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens, in tow of the harbour tug, proceeded to her...
Cape Wrath
On the after noon of the 13th October the Coxswain )f the Life-boat John and Henrietta ibserved a steamer take the ground on ,he Burbo Bank. The sea was rough it the time and appeared to make a ;lean breach over her. The Life-boat- men...
Fishing Cobles (5)
About midday on the 12th May the weather began to look boisterous with a growing sea, and shortly before three of the Spittal cobles had sailed for Goswick Bay. The Honorary Secretary having been apprised of this, he directed the Coxswain of...
Ecclefechan
DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque...
Norris
At 8 P.M. on the 25th March it was reported that the Bull Light-vessel was firing rockets, and in response the crew of the Life- boat were assembled, and the boat proceeded to her. On arrival it was found that a collision had occurred be-...
30 Lives Saved
The Italian steamer Monte Neoo$o on the Haisboro* Sands, with the Cromer Motor Life-boat standing by, and on the right a tug (see page 565).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1950
THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.
In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (1)
MAN FOUND AFTER EIGHT-HOUR SEARCH Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Portree had reported that a man was calling for help from his...