LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tender Florence
LYTHAM.—While the heavy gale was blowing on the 7th October, the steam tender Florence;, of Preston, was seen to part one of her chains and collide with another steamer, damaging both vessels.
The sea being very high, at...
A Trawler (2)
MCH. 6TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
A trawler was in distress and her crew had landed on the uninhabited island of Hascosay, but they were taken off by another trawler.- Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..
Mari
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Totland Bay coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties one mile south of Highcliffe and at 3.0 o'clock the motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
WICK NAMING
The naming ceremony and dedication of the new Wick, Caithness, life-boat Princess Marina —she is a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark II— took place in September. H.R.H. Princess Alexandra named the boat, the cost of which was met from the H. M....
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start...
Category: Services
Mary Roberts
After watching during the night, the coxswain of the Life-boat observed at 8 o'clock on the following morning a signal of distress, displayed from a schooner at anchor in the Bay. The wind was still blowing a heavy gale from N.N.W., and...
Freden
RAMSGATE.—During a fresh gale from the E.N.E., with snow and hail, on the 20th November, signals were fired by the Goodwin Sands Lightships, and a barque was seen ashore on the Sands. The Bradford Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, in...
Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth (Centre) With the Crew Who Sailed With Him on Thursday October 14 1976: (1 to R) Emergency Mechanic Eric Pavey Crew
Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth (centre), with the crew who sailed with him on Thursday, October 14, 1976: (1. to r.) Emergency Mechanic Eric Pavey, Crew Members Bertie Legge and Bernard Wills, Motor Mechanic Derek Sargent, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Marylebone Branch Raised S280 With a Most Enjoyable 'Any Questions ?' Evening at Seymour Hall Last November the Distinguished Panellists Were (I to R) Raymond B
St Marylebone branch raised S.280 with a most enjoyable 'Any Questions ?' evening at Seymour Hall last November. The distinguished panellists were (I. to r.) Raymond Baxter, Mrs Mattie Pritchard, Brian Johnston, Dr Richard Gordon and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Singular Coincidence
A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.* ["A curious and interesting coincidence has been communicated to me by Capt. McK-ERLiE, of the Coastguard, Stranraer. The Edinburgh life-boat, it may be remembered, was exhibited in Glasgow on the 16th Dec.,...
Category: Articles