LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An American Flying Fortress (2)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north by east of Seahouses. She was an...
Fosdyke Trader
Caister, Norfolk. At 4.10 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the Great Yarmouth coastguard told the coxswain that the motor vessel Fosdyke Trader of Hull was aground on Caister shoal 400 yards west-north-west of Caister Elbow buoy....
Collach, of Coll
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.40 p.m. on 5th September, 1966, a boat was reported to be overdue between Tirea and Coll. The life-boat EMM. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 5.50 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
L'Espoir and Innocence (1)
Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...
A Sea Cadet Whaler
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 11.17 on the night of the 24th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sea Cadet whaler from Portsmouth, with a crew of three, was under sail about one mile north of Ramore Head, but was drifting seawards...
A Silent Appeal
A NOVEL form of appeal was tried in Norwich this year. In place of a life-boat flag day, a silent appeal was made. There were no collectors.
Instead twenty-six large life-boat col- lecting boxes, hung on davits, were placed...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Cogent
A very thick fog having lifted somewhat about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th May, a steamer was sighted aground about half way to the outer part of the rocks off the pier. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis, im- mediately...
Comitas
Whitby, Runswick, Redcar and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th October the Italian steamer Comitas, of Genoa, left the Tees to go to Hartlepool for cargo. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...
Louise
Selsey, Sussex. At 8.30 on the morn- ing of the 8th of October, 1960, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in shoal water inside Kirk Anow reef south of Selsey Bill and appeared to be out of...
Eddy and Sid Present the Quids
Funnymen Little and Large presented a cheque for £1,100 to Blackpool lifeboat crew 24 August 1996. The money was raised from an angling competition organised by Blackpool Boat Anglers at their festival on the 17 and 18 of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs