LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at 4.15 the coast- guard telephoned that several fishing boats from Pittenweem were lying off the harbour, waiting for the tide to rise...
Pwllheli - D Class the Lion
The Reverend R. F. Donaldson conducts the service of dedication for Pwllheli's new D class lifeboat outside the lifeboat house on 29 April. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
50 Years Ago Ship on Fire By Lieutenant L. A. C. May, R.M. (Ret.), Honorary Secretary, Holy head Station.
The telephone rings loud and loud; time 5.25 am, 22nd March 1937. 1 hasten to answer it and am informed by the...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy and Iris
Canipbeltown, Argyll - At 1.24 p.m.
on 8th May, 1970, news was received that two men in a dinghy were being swept out to sea off Corriegravie.
The life-boat Michael Stephens, on temporary duty at the...
Barrus
BARRU MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES DM I I INSHORE AlHL.1 LIFEBOATS for over 25 years to the As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
A new 'D...
Category: Advertisement
Endeavour
WATCH AT THE BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.30 a.m. on I9th April, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea was getting extremely bad on the harbour bar. As part of the fishing fleet was still at sea the life-boat Mary...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down.—27th January.
What was thought to be a fishing boat in distress was found to be a buoy, with a light and flag attached, marking the end of a drifter's line.—Rewards, £6 17s..
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OCTOBER 7TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO, WATERFORD. The life-boat had put out to examine a mysterious object which could be seen from the shore, and found it to be a dan-buoy, such as trawlers use for marking fishing grounds. - Rewards, £9 19s....
Howard of Grimsby
On the 27th March, the smack Howard, of Grimsby, went ashore near the outer buoy, off Scar- borough. On the accident being seen from the shore, the Scarborough life-boat was im- mediately launched, and took off the only man on board the...
New Brighton: Volunteers vs the giant
Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...
Category: Articles