LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe (6)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Two Royal Marine commandos in a canoe had capsized, but they were rescued by a motor boat. - Rewards, £11 7s..
A Vessel (1)
JANUARY 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A vessel had been reported to be signalling by siren, but no vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d.
Recovery position
Sunderland’s Atlantic 85 Wolseley is shown being recovered by davit on 15 November 2008. Her shout turned out to be a false alarm with good intent. A member of the public had reported a fishing boat in difficulty to the Coastguard but when...
Category: Articles
Eleni
JANUARY 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the afternoon of the 20th January the Athlone Broadcasting Station asked listeners to inform the life-boat authorities that a vessel was in distress. She was the Greek steamer Eleni, of...
Sunflower
At 7.30A.M.
on the 6th February, during thick weather, with a strong W. breeze blow- ing and a moderate sea, a message was received by telephone stating that a vessel was ashore between Prawle Point and Start Point. The...
Your Letters
Who are these heros? I thought this photograph (right) might be of interest to readers - it was taken by me when I visited Honfleur, Normandy in June this year. My recognition is not all that good but is she an old Watson lifeboat? There was...
Category: Correspondence
Egton
At 4.55 p.m. on 24th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Egton was drifting ashore at North Cheek, Robin Hood Bay.
The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 5.10 in a light...
A Direct Hit on the Lifeboathouse and Lifeboat at Tynemouth on April 9 1941 the Heavy Bomb With a Slightly Delayed Fuse Penetrated and Exploded Under the Concrete
A direct hit on the lifeboathouse and lifeboat at Tynemouth on April 9, 1941. The heavy bomb, with a slightly delayed fuse, penetrated and exploded under the concrete floor. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of J. C. H. Cleet. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (13)
DEC. 1 7TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARB O R O U G H , Y O R K S H I R E . A m o t o vessel had been sunk by German aeroplanes, but a boat containing eight survivors was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards W h i t b y , £ 9 1 1 s . 3 d . ; S c...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Abersoch, Caernarvonshire. — On the 29th June Mr. William Owen saw a small sailing boat capsize and ran and told two boatmen, who put out in a motor boat. They found two men and a woman clinging to the keel in an exhausted condition,...
Category: Services