LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dutch Yawl Tenente Roberth
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.3 on the night of the 4th of September, 1958, the coastguard received a message from the police at Brighton that a two- masted boat was sending distress signals.
Her position was given as a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there,...
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Arbroath Guild
The biennial Caledonian market is a highlight in Arbroath guild's calendar.
Opening at 10.30 on the first Wednesday in August, with a queue forming at 9 am, members of the local 'Old Men's Club' take a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rfd-Gqltd
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RNLI for inshore rescue work.
Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in buoyancy.
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Interwave
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8.4 a.m. on 13th March, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Interwave was aground on the Cross Sands bank. The Great Yarmouth and...
A Catamaran
Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland - At 5.57 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a catamaran sailing in Berwick Bay was reported to have fired a red flare.
At 6.2 the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched in a strong west...
Guiding Light
JANUARY 7TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At ten o’clock in the morning a telephone message was received from Rush that the motor fishing boat Guiding Light, with a crew of five, had gone out fishing the day...
A Yacht Isidora
Shortly after midday on-the 10th. February a message was received, stating that a vessel was apparently on the North Buxey Sands, and the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched, but before she had proceeded far the vessel was forced by her...
H.M. Corvette Hyderbad
MARCH 15TH. - ABERDEEN. At 6.25 in the evening information came from the flag officer in charge at Aberdeen, through the coastguard, that H.M. Corvette Hyderbad had gone aground on the north breakwater in Navigation Channel and the No. 1...
Jean & Barbara
COBLE ESCORTED ASHORE AFTER DRIFTING Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that because of the deteriorating weather conditions he thought it advisable to launch the...