LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marguerite
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 5 p.m. on 9th February, 1967, the fishing boat Marguerite, with one man on board, was reported overdue. After further inquiries to see if the fishing boat had put in to another port, it was decided to launch the...
An Outboard Gemini Craft
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.17 p.m. on I3th May, 1967, it was reported that an outboard Gemini craft had left Porthmeor Cove at 2.30 and had not been sighted since. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 8.50 in a...
Cullercoats:
Cullercoats: Miss Diana Phillips afloat in the C class inflatable lifeboat partly funded by her gift in memory of her parents, Mr and Mrs H. A. Phillips; she was shown the lifeboat at RNLI Cowes base before it was sent to Cullercoats, where,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lysistrata
FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which...
Sea Fox (3)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
Ceremonies
Handing over of City of Edinburgh SUPPORT FOR THE Edinburgh lifeboat appeal has been forthcoming from every sector of the communities of both Edinburgh and Fraserburgh: commerce, industry, the professions, charitable trusts, worthy bodies,...
Category: Inaugurations
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OCTOBER 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HERRIDES.
At 2.30 in the afternoon, the doctor on the island of Colonsay telephoned asking for the life-boat’s help for a boy who had been badly injured and was in urgent need of surgical aid. A...
Naming Ceremony at Rhyl
Two naming ceremonies of new life-boats have been held, the first since July 1941. On September I4th Lady Scarisbrick named the Rhyl life-boat, "The Gordon Warren", which went to the station in 1939. The boat has been built out of...
Category: Articles
Lottie
RAMSGATE, KENT.—While endeavouring to return to the harbour, in a whole gale from E. and a heavy sea, on the 1st February, the smack Lottie struck the West Pier, and was driven to the back of it. Her anchor was let go but it did not hold,...
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JULY 15TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.5 in the afternoon a message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that bathers were in difficulties at Sharpness Point, Tynemouth. A fresh north-east wind was blowing,...