LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Number lifeboat, the 54ft Arun City of Bradford IV, off Spurn Point. The lifeboat, her coxswain, Brian Sevan, and his crew are the subject of a comprehensive BBC! television documentary series due to start in late Autumn. To film the seven... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Hundred Years Ago
IN the statement of the income and expenditure of the Institution for the year ending 31st March, 1854, it will be seen that £1,831 has been expended on life-boats, and on objects immed- iately connected with them; and £182 on...
Category: Articles
Shield and H.M. Drifter Rowantree
NOVEMBER 2lST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 2.45 P.M. the naval base reported that two small fishing boats were in distress just outside the harbour, and at 3.5 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. A strong S.E....
Finross
NOVEMBER 22ND. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. At 12.15 in the morning the lookout post reported flares to the north of the island. A strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat B.A.S.P., on temporary duty at the...
Britains Pride, of Falmouth
On the night of the 24th January, the brig Britain's Pride, of Fal- mouth, went ashore on the South Brake Sand, near the Goodwin Sands. The Bradford life-boat was quickly manned and taken out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, and...
Eustace
MARGATE.—While the wind was blowing from W.byN. with almost hurricane force, accompanied by a very heavy sea and terrific hail squalls, on the 27th January, the Coastguard reported flares in the Gore Channel. The crew of the Life-boat Civil...
Focus on Courage:
Focus on courage: pupils from Sacred Heart School, Redcar, won second prize in the regional final of the Focus-Multi Broadcast Schools Video Award with their film Men of Courage, all about the work of Redcar lifeboat station. The picture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dorelian
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on the Island of Sanda off the Mull of Kintyre. The...
H.M.S. Illustrious
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.35 on the night of the 17th of October, 1948, the Portland Naval Base telephoned that a liberty boat returning to H.M.S.
Illustrious, lying in Portland harbour, had sunk near the ship and that many...
Louie Marguarita, of Dunkirk
Walmer, Kent.—At 7 A.M. on the 20th September the Deal coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the sands two miles W.N.W. of East Goodwin light-vessel. She was the French trawler Louie Marguarita, of Dunkirk, with a crew of seven on board. A...