LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Skim
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 3.3 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small sloop appeared to be in difficulties off Warden point. There was a gale from the southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
H.M. Drifter Gowan
FEBRUARY 6TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 5.25 A.M. the coastguard at Carnoustie telephoned that distress flares had been seen between Horseshoe and Lady Buoys, and the motor life-boat Mona was launched at 6 A.M. A westerly gale was blowing,...
S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne
DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.43 in the morning the coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, that she was aground on Corton Sands and in need of immediate...
Defender
On the 19th March, the Ramsgate Steamer and Life-boat, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, saved the crew of 8 men from the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the N.W. spit of the Goodwin Sands during a...
The S.S. Birtley
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the afternoon of the 5th May the s.s.
Birtley, of Newcastle, ran aground about six hundred yards north of Whitburn Steel in a fog. She was bound, light, from Rotterdam to the Tyne. A moderate S.E....
Orion
On the 15th February, at 6 P.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, proceeded to the barque Orion, which had stranded on the south side of the North Scroby Sand.
A fresh S. by E. breeze was blowing at the time, the weather...
The S.S. Burrington Combe
MAY 8TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
At 6 A.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Bangor asking for the life-boat to go to a vessel in distress off Portpatrick on the coast of...
Descendants of William Wouldhave In Australia
LAST year the Institution lent photographs of portraits of Sir William ! I Hillary and Henry Greathead, and of a j i bust of William Wouldhave, to illustrate ; an article called " The Red Cross of the I Sea : the Romance of the...
Category: Articles
An Armed Trawler
DECEMBER 23RD. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
An armed trawler, 70 miles away, was reported to be making for Berehaven, with her fore-hold full of water. She could not be found, but it was learnt later that she reached safety. -...
Yorkshire Hosts:
Yorkshire hosts: Whitby's 44ft Waveney class escorts two Scottish lifeboats out of Whitby harbour on their journey north. The two visitors are the new 47ft Tyne class, Lord Saltoun, bound for Longhope and the 54ft Arun, City of Bradford... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs