LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Fleet Calendar
MESSES. H. JENKINS, LTD., the photographers, of 2, Pier Terrace, Lowestoft, whose photographs will be well known to readers of The Life-boat, have, for the third year, issued "A Fishing Fleet Calendar." It has fourteen pages, with...
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Ferry Good Idea!
Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and last year... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bose
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Padstow Lifeboathouse at Trevose Head on the North Coast of Cornwall
Padstow lifeboathouse, at Trevose Head on the north coast of Cornwall, is at the foot of steep cliffs. On Sunday September 18, 1983, a new lift up these cliffs was formally opened by Captain P. K. C. Harris, HM Coastguard regional controller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Humber- North Division
Humber's Arun class lifeboat lies afloat off the tip of Spurn Point, the most southerly fragment of Yorkshire, where the Number joins the turbulent North Sea.
It is the only station with a full-time crew - the members... - View image in PDF
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Pioneer, of Carnavon
On the 24th January, the brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon, laden with grain, becoming water-logged in a S.S. W. gale, the master and 6 of the crew took to their boat, the " painter " of which broke before the re- maining man could get...
A Small Boat
Soon after midday on the 5th August information reached the Coxs-wain of the Life-boat Richard Cresswell that a man was adrift I in the river in a small boat with only I one oar. There was a strong offshore breeze at the time, and the boat...
A Small Boat
MAROONED ON THE ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.43 in the afternoon of April the 22nd, 1947, the Ballycastle coastguard reported that a man, who had been missing in a small boat since the 20th had been reported on the Maidens Rocks,...
A Small Fishing Boat
The motor life- boat J.J.K.S.W. was launched at 4.40 P.M. on the 15th May, as the Kirkwall coastguard had telephoned that a small fishing boat, with only one man on board, had blown adrift from Scapa Pier. A whole N.E. gale was blowing,...