LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M. E. Clarke, of London
On the 23rd Dec. the steamer M. E. Clarke, of London, went on the Mole Kocks outside Dover Harbour during a heavy N.E. gale. On her signals of distress being observed, the Royal Wiltshire life-boat was taken to the centre of the bay on her...
Hannah and Joseph
LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th June the Life-boat John Gray Bell was launched to the assistance of the schooner Hannah and Joseph, of Liverpool, ashore on Carnarvon bar, which vessel, after some hours' hard work on the part of the...
A Fishing Coble
On the 21st December, during a sudden gale from the S.E., a fishing coble was seen j making for the shore. On reaching the bar ! the sea ran very heavy, and the other fisher- men, seeing the imminent danger their com- ! rades were in...
Ruby
On the 14th September the motor fishing boat Ruby, of Lowestoft, with one man on board, was seen to be in difficulties and flying a distress signal, after making two attempts to get into harbour. A strong north breeze was blowing, with a...
Lerwick
Invited to the 80th general conference of the Norwegian Life-boat Society was Mr. Frank Garriock, Norwegian Consul in Lerwick. The Norwegian Society has 33 boat stations—32 in Norway and one at Lerwick, Shetland....
Category: Meetings
Sea Eagle II
SEARCH IN BAY Dungeness, Kent. At 3.10 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the Lade coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht had capsized off St. Mary's Bay and that a yawl was circling about four miles north-east of Dungeness. At 3.25 the...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 5 P.M. on the 21st August, an open out- board motor boat, with three men and...
Category: Services
Lesley
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 early on the 15th of August, 1953, the stageman told the coxswain that a yachtsman had reported that he had seen another yacht in distress off R.7 Buoy in the Rock Channel. At 12.45 the life-boat Norman B....
Fire at Sea
'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn. - View image in PDF
with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24 August.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Europa
During a whole N.N.W. gale on the 8th January a vessel was sighted dismasted and apparently at anchor about eight miles off Trevose Head. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were summoned, and in tow of the Institution's tug...