LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lans
Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...
George, of Sunderland
On the morn- ing of the 17th of November a vessel was seen burning a light as a signal of distress during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in a heavy sea. The Grocers' life-boat, sta- tioned at Mundesley, was at once got ready, and...
The Admiralty Drifter No. 634
JANUARY 10TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel firing lights and signalling SOS at the entrance to Wells harbour. A strong north-by-west wind was blowing with a heavy swell...
The Life-Boat to the Rescue. By a Fisherman
THE night was dark and stormy, The sea rolled mountains high, When our coxswain came in haste, And thus did breathless cry : Make haste and launch the Life-boat, A vessel's on the rocks; Be quick and get all ready; Now overhaul these...
Category: Poetry
Sheffield Artist Joe Scarborough
To help raise money for the City of Sheffield lifeboat appeal for a new Tyne class boat for Whilby, Sheffield artist Joe Scarborough painted Whilby and its new lifeboat, giving reproduction rights to the appeal.
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Category: Photographs
Sangarius
Buckie, Banffshire.—On the afternoon of the 26th January the steam trawler Sangarius, of Aberdeen, signalled to the coastguard for a doctor. A gale was blowing from the S.E., with a heavy swell and snow. At 3.15 P.M.
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 30th of October, 1956, the local doctor tele- phoned the honorary secretary to ask him if the life-boat would take an injured person to the mainland. As the tide would have...
Tanheti II
St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of October, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the harbour office that red flares had been seen in St. Ouen Bay. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon put out at 6.49 in a...
The S.S. Naess Falcon
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 19th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Falcon of Monrovia, had a sick man on board. At 1.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson,...
Minnie
FISHING BOAT FOUNDERED At 8 a.m. on 25th October, 1965, the coxswain's wife informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Minnie was in difficulties in Clovelly harbour, having shipped seas while hauling in her nets.
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