LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex-Lifeboat Saved
William and Kate Johnson, rescued by a joint operation involving the Holyhead lifeboat, the Trearddur Bay Atlantic 75 Dorothy Selina, the Sea King helicopter from RAF Valley and Holyhead Coastguard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Torbay
TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Favourite, of Peel
Early in the morning of the 17th October, during a strong gale of wind from S.S.E., signals of distress were observed from this place.
The Sir George Bowles life-boat was at once launched, and found the lugger Favourite,...
Guiding Light
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.25 a.m. on I2th May, 1967, it was learned that the coble Guiding Light with a man and a young boy on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The coastguard searched to the limit of visibility but could not...
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 15th April seventeen of the fishing cobles were out, chiefly engaged with the crab pots, when the sea began to rise. Six of the boats returned before the sea leached its height, one of these...
The Deep-Sea Trawler Boston Jaguar
Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...
The Annual Three Peaks Race Starts from Barmouth
The annual Three Peaks Race starts from Barmouth and finishes at Fort William, calling at Caernarvon and Ravenglass on the way, where crew members have to disembark and run up Snowdon and Scafell Pike. The race ends with a 13-mile run up Ben... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Switha
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 2.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel at anchor one mile north by west from Cromer Lookout had hoisted a signal for help, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Henry Blogg was...
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Barranquilla
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 4.58 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that the motor vessel Marchion Enterprise had taken the yacht Barranquilla in tow with a broken propeller shaft coupling...