LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ulster Queen
FEBRUARY 28TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 4.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the motor vessel Ulster Queen, of Belfast, with about 120 passengers and crew on board, had gone ashore at Maughold Head. A light, freshening,...
A Minesweeper
NO V . 3 0TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A minesweeper was reported to have gone aground, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £19 6s..
Douglas Lifeboat the 46' 9" Watson R a Colby Cubbin No 1 Which Kept Watch Over Cargo Vessel Ivy Taking Water and Listing on January 3 and 4 Is Seen Here Launching T
Douglas lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1, which kept watch over cargo vessel Ivy, taking water and listing, on January 3 and 4, is seen here launching to the aid of the pleasure boat White Rose at 1945 on Monday,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Windermere
NEW EOMHET, KENT.—Distress signals having been shown by the barque Windermere, of Newcastle, bound from London for Eangoon, with a general cargo, during a moderate E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the 17th of January, the crew of the Sandal...
Two Naval Speed Boats
MAY 26TH. GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 P.M.
a message was received from the Caister alert station that two naval speed boats had gone aground on the Scroby Sand. A light S.S.E.
breeze...
Fortuna
PLYMOUTH.—Sockets were sent up from Batten Coastguard Station during a very heavy gale from S.W. to W.S.W. at 6 A.M.
on the 28th October. The Life-boat Clemency went out to render assistance to any vessel in distress, and...
District Conferences
North-East of England, South-East of England, and North-West of England.
TEN years ago the first conference of honorary workers was held in the North of England and although the practice of holding them regularly was not...
Category: Meetings
Lottery
LIFeBoAt LotteRY Lifeboat Lottery Take your chance First prize in the winter 007 Lifeboat Lottery is a Kia Picanto. Second prize is a 10-day Alpine train holiday very kindly provided at short notice by Great Rail Journeys (see their advert...
Category: Articles
Ivylea
Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a man at East Burrafirth saw that a fishing boat had broken down in the Rona and asked the driver of a car to tell the life-boat station. The motorist de- livered the message at 9...
Advance
On the 22nd August a whole gale of wind blew from the N.E., the sea was very heavy, and^as risk would be incurred by the fishing craft in returning to port, the Life-boat was launched at 4.30 A.M. At 5 o'clock the lugger Advance capsized...