LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anna
At 1.45 on the following afternoon the barque Anna, of Copenhagen, having stranded on the West Gunfleet Sands, the Life-boat was once again taken out, and proceeded to her assistance. It was decided to remain by her until the tide flowed, in...
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21Class Lifeboat Spirit of America
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21class lifeboat Spirit of America is capable of some 29 knots. Helmsman Alan Clarke said of her: 'Speed is one of her greatest assets and can be paramount in saving life - but she can only be driven as hard as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• The first lifeboat in the Penzance area was built in 1803 to Henry Greathead's design, purchased by local subscription and a donation from Lloyd's.
Unfortunately, the early initiative faded and the boat was sold...
Category: Articles
Above: the Wide Aisle, With Engines to the Right and Prop Shafts to the Left
Above: The wide aisle, with engines to the right and prop shafts to the left. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard (1)
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
November
Launches 62 Lives rescued 8
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set...
Category: Services
Helen N. MacAlister
St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...
The Three Ex-Lifeboats Helen Wycherley. Claude Cecil Staniforth and Norma B. Corlett In Crosshaven.
The three ex-lifeboats Helen Wycherley. Claude Cecil Staniforth and Norma B. Corlett in Crosshaven.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saint Austell
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— At seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of April, 1952, the keeper of the Hook Tower Lighthouse telephoned that the schooner Saint Austell, of Howth, bound for New York with a crew of two, was...
Poly, Mary, Congress Bell and Sheila
On the 19th September four fishing boats which had left har- bour early in the morning were seen to be in trouble five or six miles north of the harbour. A moderate S.S.E. gale had sprung up, bringing a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor...