LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Esmond
MARCH 9TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A message had been received from the coastguard that a heavy explosion had been heard, and a later message said that an S.O.S. had come in from the S.S. Esmond The life-boat Julia...
Sulby
Early on the morning of the 25th April a tele- phone message was received from the postmistress at Machrihanish that a steamer was sounding her siren and sending up rockets about four miles south of Machrinhanish. A strong S.E. breeze was...
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...
Service to Mi Amigo:
Service to Mi Amigo: On the evening of March 19, 1980. the radio ship Mi Amigo was reported to be dragging anchor in the vicinity of NW Long Sand Beacon. Sheerness lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney1 Helen Turnbull, under the command of Coxswain...
Category: Services
Capella
Joint service saves vessel and crew St Bees inshore lifeboat and Workington's relief all-weather Mersey worked together to save the 65ft fishing vessel Capella and her crew of four on 14 July 1996.
The St Bees Atlantic...
A Motor Fishing Boat
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
Howth
On the 2nd May a large four-masted barque was observed at anchor in Torbay flying a signal for assistance. The Coastguard reported the matter to the Harbour Master, and within a quarter of an hour of the crew being summoned the Life- boat...
James
DUNBAR.—About noon on the 7th March, when a strong northerly gale was blowing, the steamer James, of Greenock, bound to Campbeltown, was seen drifting towards the shore with signals of distress flying.
The Life-boat Wallace...
Rosebud
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing boat Bosebud, of Lowestoft, was being sailed from that place to Lerwick, on the 7th April, by two Shetland fishermen who had just purchased her, she was brought up by stress of weather and had to...
At Exmouth on 16Th May, 1970, the 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent Type Life-Boat City of Birmingham,
At Exmouth on 16th May, 1970, the 48-foot 6-inch Solent type life-boat City of Birmingham, paid for by contributions by the citizens of Birmingham, was named by the Deputy Mayor of Birmingham (Aid. Charles V. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs