LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
Tansy
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 8.30 in the morning of the 22nd of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was blowing her siren and be- lieved to be on the Geddle Weirs Rocks.
A later message said that she had...
A Dinghy
Drifting dinghy ON THE EVENING of Monday June 29, 1981, John McAllister was working at Garron Point, east of Red Bay lifeboat station, when he saw people waving in a small dinghy off the point. He telephoned the station's deputy...
Rescued!
ON 20th August the Runswick motor life-boat, Robert Patton—The Always Ready, rescued a man whose yacht was in distress in Runswick Bay. The account of that service appears on page 364. Here is another account of the same service—by the man...
Category: Services
Tranio
At 8.47 P.M. on the 13th January, the Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles north-east of the station. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched and found that the vessel was the steam...
'Order, Order!'
Left to right: Girvan Lifeboat Operations Manager Colin McKechnie, Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP and Coxswain Roddy Leitch Photo: Carrie* Gazette. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aubric
Arun tows yacht for 34 miles against NE gale Newhaven's Arun class Keith Anderson was involved in a long and arduous service on 4 April 1988 when she was at sea for nearly six-and-a-half hours in a NE gale, picking up her casualty and...
Above. Baltimore's 'Upside Down Boathouse'.
Above. Baltimore's 'upside down boathouse'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Gustav Bitter
POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
Dolphin
Fishing vessel sinking ORANGE SMOKE observed one mile east of Chapel Point and six miles north of the lifeboat station was reported to Skegness honorary secretary at 1557 on Tuesday, June 29.
In good visibility and with a...