LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peggy Gordon
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At about 11.25 A.M. on the llth December, 1938, the harbour-master saw the local motor fishing boat Peggy Gordon, with a crew of two, about two miles west of the harbour, flying distress signals. A moderate S.S.E. gale was...
Nordstiernen
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—During a very strong gale of wind from the S.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, at about 4 P.M. on the 29th April, a sloop was observed in the offing sailing in a westerly direction. The wind increased and shifted westerly,...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Longhope, on the south side of Hoy, one of the South Orkney Islands, where a lamentable ship- ! wreck, with loss of life, took place some '...
Category: Articles
Motor Cruising Association
ARE YOU A MOTOR CRUISER OWNER/CREW? JOIN THE MOTOR CRUISING ASSOCIATION whose rallies, social events and quarterly journals are INFORMAL AND FRIENDLY Member of the R.Y.A. Motor Cruising Conference For details write to: The Administrator,...
Category: Advertisement
Whitstable: on Saturday July 9 a New Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Was Handed Over By Mr and Mrs Todd of the British Sub Aqua
Whitstable: On Saturday July 9 a new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was handed over by Mr and Mrs Todd of the British Sub Aqua Club to Raymond Baxter, a member of the Committee of Management, who, in turn, handed her over to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer
In response to signals of distress the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Matthew Simpson put to sea shortly after 4 A.M.
on the 10th November, to assist a motor-boat which was dragging her anchors. The motor-boat had anchored in...
St. Joseph
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At eleven o'clock on the night of the 13tn of March, 1950, the Hook Tower light- house keeper reported that a boat was making flares two miles south-west of Hook. The flares and S.O.S. signals on...
Relieving a Mother's Grief
• CI should like to tell about something that has given me an enormous amount of satisfaction; I think it was one of the proudest moments in my life when they made me the coxswain —and certainly the proudest moment in my dad's life. One...
Category: Articles
Claggan
On 21st February, at about 7.45 P.M., during a strong S.S.W. gale, a flare was observed to the eastward of the Harbour. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched, and was quickly alongside the vessel.
She proved to be the...
Blyth Lifeboatmen Try Out a Rother Lifeboat at Swanage: (Above I to R) Lt Alan Tate Divisional Inspector of Lifeboat (Ne) Assistant Mechanic John Scott Motor Mechan
Blyth lifeboatmen try out a Rother lifeboat at Swanage: (above, I. to r.) Lt Alan Tate, divisional inspector of lifeboat (NE), Assistant Mechanic John Scott, Motor Mechanic Colin Cuthbertson, and Crew Members Les Fay, George Turner, Tom Moss... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs