LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ethel
On the 16th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from S. by W. with a rough sea, the trawler Ethel, of Great Yarmouth, anchored about 1J miles N.
of the harbour awaiting the tide. When the flood tide had made she got...
Cetus
Nov. 19TH. - ALDEBURGH: SUFFOLK.
At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Orfordness coastguard that a vessel was in distress about two miles from Orfordness Lighthouse. A strong N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Cover Picture
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Category: Photographs
Gem
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 18th of December, 1949, the motor fishing boat Gem left Whitby to recover lines left at sea the previous day. During the afternoon the wind freshened and, blowing strongly from the north-west, raised a rough sea at...
A Small Metal Dinghy
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coxswain heard that a small metal dinghy with an outboard motor had not been seen since three o'clock. He informed the coastguard, and at 5.0 the life-boat The...
An Aeroplane (13)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
Alex and Gratitude
MARCH 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
When the small fishing boats Alex and Gratitude were seen making for home, a fresh east-north-east wind was blowing and heavy seas were breaking across the harbour entrance, so the motor...
A Rowing Punt
FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an...
Irb Launches on Service During the Months December 1970, January and February, 1971
Broughty Ferry, Angus Conway, Caernarvonshire Criccieth, Caernarvonshire Eastney, Hampshire Eastney, Hampshire (18-005) Flint, Flintshire Hastings, Sussex Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire Llandudno, Caernarvonshire Lymington, Hampshire Lytham-St....
Category: Services
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
IN the last issue of the Life-boat Journal we had the satisfaction to announce to our readers that H.E.H. the DUKE or YORK had graciously accepted the post of President of the Institution's " Life-boat Saturday " Fund, and we...
Category: Articles