LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
They Have Now Been Warned
Two men have been fined £2 each at Tobermory for firing a rocket "for fun" over the Island of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, on the night of the 3rd of January. The rocket was taken for a distress signal and the Barra Island...
Category: Services
A Boat and a Catamaran
Committee boat A RACE had been organised for dinghies at Blackpool Light Craft Club off Squires Gate on Saturday afternoon, June 13, 1981, but it was cancelled because of rising wind and sea. All the dinghies came ashore unaided but the...
The Icelandic Trawler Havardour Isfirdingur
On the evening of the 22nd January the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned that a vessel about the size of a trawler appeared to be aground on Spurn Point, south of the military pier. Two of the life-boat crew went to investigate and...
Frieda
Overdue BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Portaferry lifeboat station at 1815 on Sunday December 19, 1982, that the yacht Frieda, on passage in Strangford Lough betweeen Killyleagh and Ringshaddy, had been reported...
The S.S. Bramham
In a moderate N.W. breeze and a rough sea, about 5.40 P.M. on the 18th July, the watchman observed a large steamer on the N.W. part of the Cross Sand, and within a few minutes the Light-vessel on the sand fired signals to draw attention to...
Pride of Leinster and M. E. Johnson
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen north of Arklow harbour. At 9.9 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched. The sea was choppy, with a...
An Ex-R.A.F. Boat and a Motor Fishing Vessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 26th of December, 1951, the Tenby coastguard telephoned the Tenby life-boat station that the Helwick Lightvessel had reported that an ex-R.A.F. boat, which...
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BOYS RESCUED Exmouth, South Devon. At 9.30 a.m.
on 2ist March, 1965, the police at Dawlish informed the honorary secretary that three boys had been cut off by the tide at the Parson & Clark rocks near...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 3.10 p.m. on 5th October, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient on Foula was seriously ill and needed urgent hospital treatment. At 3.35, when the doctor boarded the life-boat, the John and...
Sunk By Enemy Action
The Danish steamer Canada from which the Humber life-boat rescued 14 lives on 3rd November, 1939.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs