LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aurora
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 6.45 p.m. on i5th June, 1966, the lifeboat Glencoe, Glasgow left her moorings in a gentle southerly wind and a moderate sea, to go to the assistance of the m.v.
Aurora which was reported...
Dorothy Melinda
Hastings, Sussex. At 3.12 on the morning of the 16th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been observed between four and five miles south-east of Fairlight. At 3.35, when the life-boat Lucy Lavers,...
The S.S. Baron Graham and The S.S. Duero
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — On the night of the 10th February members of the Civic Guard from Waterford brought news that the s.s.
Baron Graham, of Ardrossan, was in distress about eight miles off the Waterford coast. A...
The Motor Cabin Cruiser Gannet
TOW ROPE WAS CUT At 2.15 p.m. on nth September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor cabin cruiser was aground on the Black Middens rocks half a mile from the life-boathouse.
There was a...
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 18th March the local fishing fleet were out fishing, and at about noon the sea began to grow very rapidly and the weather looked very threatening. At a little after one o'clock, as the sea was breaking heavily...
Summary of the Year's Work
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in saving life from Shipwreck in the year 1872, may thus be briefly summarised:— Lives saved.
By Life-boats 569 By Shore-boats and other means, for -whose services the...
Category: Annual Reports
Jubilee Support
I thought you might enjoy seeing this rather different picture of the Dungeness lifeboat.
I took it during the Parade of the Services that was part of the Queen's jubilee celebrations on 4 June. A great day and it was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Greek Brig Marietta
At 4 a.m., on the 19th October, the Greek brig Mari- etta, from Lisbon, for Cardiff, in ballast, ran ashore on some rocks in Tramore Bay.
One of the crew, at great peril to himself, plunged into the surf with a line, and...
Jo of Ryde
Injured Yachtsman SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1973, was overcast with rain squalls when, at 5.35 p.m., the deputy launching authority of Eastney station, Hampshire, was informed by Hayling Island Coastguard that a helicopter from the SAR flight, HMS...
The S.S. E. Rose
At daybreak on 10th February the s.s. E. Rose, of Great Yarmouth, bound, in ballast, from Ply- mouth to Boston, Lines., with a crew of six on board, was seen by the Coxswain to be in difficulties dangerously near a lee shore between...