LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr Robertson Buchan With One of His Matchstick Models This Trawler Required 8500 Used Matchsticks and In Manhours Took Two Years to Build By Courtesy 'Hull Daily
Mr Robertson Buchan with one of his matchstick models. This trawler required 8,500 used matchsticks and in manhours took two years to build. - View image in PDF
by courtesy 'Hull Daily Mailas. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Greyhound
ST. IVES, CORNWALL. — On the 29th March, during a storm and tremendous sea, accompanied by blinding showers of hail and snow, the ketch Greyhound, of Porthcawl, was observed running for the harbour. The. Life-boat Covent Garden was launched...
A Dangerous Launch at Gourdon
ON 17th December, 1938, a S.E. by E. gale was blowing at Gourdon, Kincardineshire, with, flurries of sleet.
An extremely heavy sea was running, and was breaking heavily far outside the harbour. Half an hour after midday a...
Category: Services
Gratitude
Walmer, Kent. At 2.16 on the after- noon of the 31st of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor boat had the ketch Gratitude, of 70 tons, in tow and that the two boats were drifting towards the Goodwin...
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Mersey class lifeboat ON-1166 Lincolnshire Poacher Cost £460,221 Funding Provided by a major donation to The Lincolnshire Lifeboat Appeal by the John and Lucille Van Geett Charitable Trust THE CREW Coxswain/Mechanic J...
Category: Services
Herring Boats
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 15th September several of the large herring boats belonging to this place were lying at anchor in the bay when a very violent gale suddenly sprang up, and the sea rose very rapidly, and they were in great...
Olbers
At 6.45 P.M. on the 1st April a telephone message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore at Scotston Head. Coxswain James Cameron of the No. 2 Life - boat Alexander Tulloch started for the scene j of the wreck,...
St. Helier
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.17 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground on the Buxey Sands five and a half miles south- west of Clacton. At 7.25 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
A Canoe
ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR DRIFTING CANOE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 7.50 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and an eleven-year-old girl in a canoe had drifted out of sight off...
Emma Louise
At 2 P.M.
on the 7th March the schooner Emma Louise, of Wick, bound to the Tyne with a cargo of paving stones, but then lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, showed signals of distress, the crew fear- ing she would drive...