LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 7.25 on the evening of the24th of August, 1953, the Nells Point coastguard rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had been damaged in a storm and was...
Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Constantine Brings Scarborough's Mersey Class Lifeboat In Stern First Through Heavy Seas on One of Eight Attempts to Get Close Enou
Coxswain/mechanic Richard Constantine brings Scarborough's Mersey class lifeboat in stern first through heavy seas on one of eight attempts to get close enough to the sea wall. Photo Scarborough Evening News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Escurial
HAYLE, CORNWALL. — The Life-boat K F. Harrison was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Escurial, of Glasgow, |which, having been disabled in a heavy gale, drifted ashore off Portieath. on the 25th January. The boat was taken on her...
The S.S. Cedric
During a strong northerly gale on the 30th I January, the s.s. Cedric, of Landskrona, brought up in South wold Bay, and next morning signalled that she wanted a doctor, or a boat to land a man who had met with an accident. ...
Triumph
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. — About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned a message received from Cross- bost Post Office that a motor fishing vessel, the Triumph, of Stornoway, appeared to be in a...
British Queen, of London, and Brig Valiant, of Jersey
A very- sudden and severe storm was experienced here on the 10th February, when no less than six vessels were wrecked at the mouth of the Tyno within a short dis- tance of each other, besides others that received considerable damage in...
Twenty Best Branches: A Correction
In the last issue of The Lifeboat, in the article on the twenty Branches with the highest collections in the year 1929- 30, Clacton-on-Sea was given, as having been sixteenth in the previous year, but as having fallen out of the first...
Category: Branches
Fargo
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.50 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, distress flares were seen coming from the auxiliary yacht Fargo off the West Holm buoy. At 6.3 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded in a westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide...
Havlyn
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.26 a.m.
on 2yth November, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that the Norwegian motor vessel Havlyn was in need of assistance, having a forty-five degree list nine miles from the South Stack...
An Aeroplane (60)
APRIL 18TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
Flares had been reported several miles south of Skilligs, but nothing could be found. The life-boat put out again to a German aeroplane which had crashed in the sea, but the six airmen had...