LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Industry
PORT LOGAN.—A telegram was received on the morning of the 26th January reporting that a vessel was flying a signal of distress about four miles W. of the Mull of Galloway. The Life-boat Edinburgh and B. M. Ballantyne was launched at 10.15...
The 52Ft Barnett Relief Lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse While at Ramsey During a Passage from Holyhead to Arranmore Launched on the Morning of Janu
The 52ft Barnett relief lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, while at Ramsey during a passage from Holyhead to Arranmore, launched on the morning of January 23 to take over from HMS Soberton the tow of Dutch, a converted ship's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The St.Mary's (Isle of Scilly) Lifeboat Robert Edgar
The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Stephen (2)
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
The 46Ft 9In Watson Relief Lifeboat William Gammon Manchester and District Xxx on Temporary Duty at Cromer Launches on Service to Diana V Photographs By Cou
The 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat William Gammon, Manchester and District XXX, on temporary duty at Cromer, launches on service to Diana V. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Poppyland Photographs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: August 1995 Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Clark CM GM, Former national organiser for RNLI in Ireland from 1967 to 1982.
September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Lynx
MOETE BAY, NQBTH DEVON;—The s.s.
Lynx, of Cardiff, bound from that port to Portreath, with coal, sprang a leak when off Morthoe Point, on the 6th March, and with the view of saving the lives of the crew, the master ran her...
Little Ouse
The following account of a service carried out by the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat on the 26th of March, 1960, was received too late for inclusion in the June 1960 number of the Life-boat : At 5.5 in the afternoon, the coast- guard informed...
Spes
Padstow, Cornwall - At 3 p.m. on 21st August, 1968, it was learnt thatthe motor boat Spes with six people and a dog on board was overdue. She had last been sighted one and a half miles north east of Galland island.
The life...
The Sailing Barque Kaskelot (2)
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...