LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Daleby (1)
DECEMBER 5-6 TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. AND HARTLEPOOL. DURHAM.
At 5 P.M. a message was received from the Port War Signal Statlon at South Gare, that a vessel was ashore on the North Gare and might have to be abandoned. A...
A Steam Trawler Strathlethen
On the 29th December, 1933, the steam trawler Strathkthen, of Aberdeen, had her steering gear carried away while she was making for the harbour on her return from the fishing grounds. She became unman- ageable, and was thrown by a heavy sea...
Award for Licensee of Inn
Ox the evening of the 9th of August, 1957, two boys and a girl were bathing off the beach at Walberswick, some two hundred yards south of the south pier of the harbour at Southwold, Suffolk. A strong south-by-east breeze was blowing and...
Category: Awards
Centenary Celebration
Japanese Lifeboat centenary commemorated at conference By Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the RNLI In July 1924, representatives from eight overseas lifeboat societies met in London at the invitation of the RNLI for a conference which was...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Sheldon
MARCH 7TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 4.45 A.M.. the coastguard reported signals from a vessel to the N.E. by E., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 6.30 A.M.
A light southerly wind was blowing...
Globe
St. David's, and Angle, Pembroke- shire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the St. David's coastguard telephoned the St. David's life-boat station that red flares had been seen eight miles north-west by north of...
Four Rowing Boats
JULY 20TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The life-boat crew had assembled to take the life-boat to Dartmouth for the life-boat flag day there, when, at 12.56 in the afternoon, Brixham coastguard reported a small boat in Babbacombe Bay in need of help,...
Sutta
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.44 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, after the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 had been launched to the tanker San Cirilo, the coast- guard reported that a yacht was ashore on Red Sands. The...
Plymouth's Lifeboats 1803-1974 By Jeff Moiris
FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...
Category: Articles
Provider (3)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...