LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran
HELPED CATAMARAN Life-boat O.N. 44-001. Later the same day while the 44-foot steel life-boat O.N. 44-001 was coming out of the river Medina after assisting a sailing dinghy, a catamaran was seen to capsize in the fresh south-westerly breeze...
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Scarab
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 2.13 p.m.
on I2th April, 1964, inshore rescue boat no. 7 was launched to aid the yacht Scarab, which, with a crew of two on board, had run aground on the bar. There was a moderate south-westerly...
Helmsman Eric T Ward
Helmsman Eric T. Ward, St Ives, has been a member of the 35ft 6in Liverpool and then the 37ft Oakley lifeboat crew since 1964, serving as an emergency mechanic since 1980, and a member of the D class inflatable lifeboat crew since 1966; he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Supply, of Stornoway
The same boat also rendered similar service, on the 26th October, to the crew of the brig Supply, of Stornoway, which was seen in distress, with signals for help flying, in Thurso Bay, during a heavy northerly gale. When the vessel was...
Jill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.55 in the evening of the 9th of June, 1948, news came that a fishing boat was on the revetment near C.7 black buoy, with the tide ebbing, and was in some danger. At 8.10 the No. 2 motor life- boat Edmund and Mary...
Chloe
Poole, Dorset. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Chloe had left Wareham for Sandbanks at 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August and had not arrived....
Ros Ailither and Ros Tuaisceart
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.14 on the morning of the 3rd of May. 1955, a man rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from his fishing boat Ros Ailither that she had taken in tow the fishing boat Ros...
BIENVENUE!
Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.
Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...
Category: Articles
Thais
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...