LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cobles North Star, Chrystalite, Sceptre, Evelyn Margaret, Thankful, Premier
J ANUARY 2 9 T H . - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. During the morning nine local fishing vessels were out and as a strong easterly wind had got up, with a rough sea, the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 10.30 A.M. She escorted the...
People and Places
New Year Honours Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Rear Admiral Morgan Morgan Giles, DSO QBE GM. For political service. Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan Giles has been a member of the Committee of...
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DEC. 15TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An explosion had been heard, but no vessel in need of help was found. - Rewards, £7 6s. 6d..
Real-life trial
A brand new, state-of-the-art lifeboat arrived at Appledore station at the end of March but she was saving lives weeks before while on trials off the south Devon coast.
During sea trials, in force 6–7 winds, a mayday call...
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The S.S. Cambalu
On the 30th January the s.s. Cambalu, of Liverpool, ran aground between Welcombe and Knapps Head, on the Cornish coast, in a dense fog.
She was bound, light, from Plymouth to Mumbles, and carried a crew of...
The S.S. Perth
DEC. 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.17 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had stranded on the Long Sand about thirteen miles south-east of Clacton Pier. A W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 3...
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.30 early on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1954, the Fire Brigade reported that firemen at Rosemullion Head were hauling two men up a cliff. The men had been in a fourteen-feet dinghy with another man, but the...
(4)—Crew Rowing Out to the Life-Boat In the 25-Foot Boarding Boat. Seven Launchers Run on Before the Crew, to Pull the Boarding Boat Into the Landing Stage Ready for the Crew.
(4)—Crew rowing out to the life-boat in the 25-foot boarding boat. Seven launchers run on before the crew, to pull the boarding boat into the landing stage ready for the crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Betsy Nora
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.49 on the even- ing of the llth of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen coming from a motor boat a quarter of a mile east of Great Rock. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the weather deteriorated, and about 9.20 the coastguard told the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat that the local fishing boat Provider A. was still at sea. She was making for the...