LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
L'Espoir and Innocence (1)
Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...
Gretna Green Blacksmith's Shop
MR. R. RENNISOX, the manager and guide of the old blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green, famous for runaway marriages, which is visited by thousands of people every year, very kindly offered, at the end of June, 1950, to have collecting...
Category: Donations
Tranio
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on Aran Island some days earlier, arrived at Casla Bay on the mainland, with his chief...
NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT MUSEUM
NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT MUSEUM On the quayside in the heart of the city's dockland is the largest display of Historic Lifeboats in Europe.
Come and see the Lizzie Porter from Holy Island, now fully restored, on the sole...
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Diamond Dove
Six saved from power boat LymeRegis South West Division The Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 Independent Forester Benevolence rescued six people on 22 May 1988 in a short but difficult service when a small power boat lost engine power and was being...
A Boat (3)
Torbay, Devon. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a 12-feet boat, which had been hired earlier in the day, had not returned. Further enquiries were made...
Ingrid II and Thelas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 3.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was flying a distress signal near Holland Point. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Good Hope and Good Design
WHITELINK BAY, ABERDEENSHIRE.— After a fine morning on the 5th January, a sudden and terrific squall was experienced, accompanied by a heavy shower of snow and sleet. Soon afterwards the coxswain of the Life-boat Three Brothers observed a...
The Hopper No. 42
— Just before midnight on the 12th-13th September the hopper No. 42, of London, which was making for Ply- mouth to coal, struck on the south side of the Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched to her assistance, and, on...
An R.A.F. Sunderland Flying Boat
MAY 12TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
At 7.15 in the morning a doctor of Castlebay telephoned to the life-boat honorary secretary that he had received a telephone message from Vatersay post office that an R.A.F. Sunderland...