LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Fishing boat sinks AT 1235 on Thursday August 21, 1986, Oban Coastguard informed Mr A.
McLellan, honorary secretary of Mallaig lifeboat station, that a fishing vesselhad struck rocks on the south coast of Rhum and required...
Helen
TOOK OVER TOW Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in tow of a steam ship two miles south of Bolt Head and the life-boat was asked to take over the tow. There was a...
The American Steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore (1)
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down, while bound from Australia to Glasgow, with about...
A Canvas Canoe
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1957, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the New Brighton stage- man saying that the hopper Gamma had reported that she had seen two bovs drifting in a small...
A Dinghy (4)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 5.50 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had capsized in Hartlepool Bay near the shore and that two people were clinging to her.
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The S.S. Gangeren
The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched during a moderate N.E. gale and heavy break- ing sea, on the llth January, to the assistance of the s.s. Gangeren, of Brevik, which stranded near the North Pier.
Owing to the heavy...
A Rowing Boat
Capsized rowing boat TWO FISHERMEN of Newbiggin launched their ferrier rowing boat to go out to their keep-box moored offshore at about 1115 on Friday, January 31, 1975.
When only a short distance from the shore, some 50 to...
Northness
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 7.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore a mile west of Rue Point, and a few minutes later she was reported to be blowing S.O.S. on her whistle. The motor...
The Second Fore and Aft Skin Has Been Laid and the First Strake of the Third Skin Is Fitted Into Place This Third Skin Is Laid on the Opposite Diagonal to the First Skin
The second, fore and aft, skin has been laid, and the first strake of the third skin is fitted into place. This third skin is laid on the opposite diagonal to the first skin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Breeze
On the evening of the 19th July the Coxswain was told by boatmen that a motor boat was in difficulties near the Long Nose Buoy, and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. A light easterly breeze was blow- ing and the sea was smooth. The...