LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glenkens Lifeboat Guild
'It's a bit big now, but you'll grow into it in a year or two'. In fact, this is Coxswain Joseph Sassoon of Kirkcudbright showing young Ian Thomson what it is like being dressed up like a lifeboatman. He brought the clothing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Spray
RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The ketch, Silver Spray, of Lowestoft, laden with machinery and stone, and bound from Guernsey for the North of England, showed signals of distress when about a quarter of a mile E. of Ryde pier, on the night of the 27th...
The S.S. Newhall Hills
TANKER ON FIRE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.27 in the morning of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned a message from the S.S. Newhall Hills, of San Francisco, that she was on fire to the southward of South Falls Buoy, the result of an ex...
Britannia V and Windsor Rose
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the early part of the evening of the 23rd of Sep- tember, 1957, the weather was becom- ing steadily worse, and as there were several local fishing boats at sea the no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched at seven...
Reine des Anges
At 4 A.M., on the 13th September, flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded over the sands through the breakers, in the direction in which the lights had been last seen; but no...
World Concord (1)
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Liberian tanker World Concord broke in two in the Irish sea. The St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat rescued thirty-five men from her fore- part, and the Rosslare Harbour,...
Re-Opening of Shoreham Station
THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
Category: Articles
Sixty-Two Rescued
ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...
Category: Services
Arthur Albright
ROUGH PASSAGE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.50 p.m. on 26th November, 1963, the medical officer for the port of Penzance and Mount's Bay area informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Arthur Albright, expected in the area at 4.10,...
Leo
OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.25 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a red flare near Scotstoun Head had been reported from Rattray. Half an hour later it was reported that six red flares...