LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah Ann
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 9.15 on the morning of the 5th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Sarah Ann was over- due. After further enquiries had been made, the life-boat Gertrude was launched at 10.5...
Lifeboat Services
Creyv board boat face danger and tragedy inside cave on Atlantic coast The crew of the Arun stationed at Ballyglass on the exposed north west coast of Ireland faced unusual dangers last October when the lifeboat and her Y-Boat were involved...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ABERSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at Abersoch, near Pwll- heli. A large number of vessels are often at anchor in St. Tudwell's Roads off that place, which are liable to accident or...
Category: Articles
Functional Clothing Ltd
CLOTHING IN THE WORLD suppliers of weathe off-shore oil ac and sold c! ! tn thp R N ) the United KM unctional Jacket with Contour Hood No. 4 Functional Clothing is ideal for work or leisure and gives all weather comfort and protection. The...
Category: Advertisement
Rob Roy of Sunderland
On the night of the 12th January the steam-tug Hob Boy, of Sunderlaud, ran ashore on Whitburn rocks. On the alarm being given, the Whitburn life-boat was promptly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of 4 men and...
Books
• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Index to the Branches
FAOB ABERDEEN . . . .469 ABBRDOVEY . . . .445 ABBRSOCH .... 414 AflERYSTWITH . . . 413 ACOCK'S GREBN . . 460 ALDBBURGH .... 454 ALL »A ..... 473 ALNMOUTH .... 446 INDEX TO Tl FAGB...
Category: Branches
Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton
Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton.
BY the death, on 23rd July at the age of sixty-two, of Mr. Kalph Brown Scott, Chief Motor Mechanic of the Life-boat at New Brighton on the Mersey, a Lifeboatman with a very...
Category: Obituaries
Waiting for the Call
The operator at the wireless telegraphy set on the Rosslare Harbour motor life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kate and Violet, of Bridlington
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 3.5 p.m.
on 6th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble had broken down one mile south west of the North Smithie buoy. The life-boat William Henry and...