LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Islay, Hebrides. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be used to collect the ballot boxes used in the General Election from Colonsay Island, as no other boat was...
Provider A, Pilot Me and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th of March, 1955, the local fish- ing boats Provider A, Pilot Me and Lead Us were at sea in a strong north- westerly wind and a heavy swell.
About ten o'clock it was learned...
A Motor Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 10.45 on the morning of the 1st of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was in difficulties off Bann Mouth.
There was a fresh south-easterly wind...
Tewkesbury Abbey Is An Unlikely Landmark For An RNLI Flood Rescue Crew
tewkesbury Abbey is an unlikely landmark for an RnLI fl ood rescue crew Photo: robin Goodlad. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fred Thomson, of Dundee
WINCHELSEA.—On the 21st January, at 2.30 A.M. the Life-boat Storm Sprite was launched, in consequence of signals of distress being observed from the brig Fred Thomson, of Dundee, which vessel, while on a voyage from Boston to London, had got...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.
The shallow...
Category: Articles
Chasseur 5, a Chaser of the French Naval Forces (1)
DECEMBER 21ST. - SWANAGE, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 10.27 in the morning the Swanage coastguard telephoned that the naval officer in charge at Poole wished the Swanage life-boat to go to the help of an escort vessel which had capsized three...
Maggie
A gale from S.S.E. sprang up with exceptional suddenness shortly before .5 A.M. on the 22nd January. Several of the local fish- ing boats were off fishing, and three were taken into safety by the Life-boat Queensbury. The Coxswain was...
General Burwood and Struan
A message was received on the 19th January from the coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore two miles south of Belhelvie coastguard station, and the Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance put out at 7.10 P.M. She found the Hull...
Pool Fisher
Capsized coaster IN THE EARLY MORNING of Tuesday November 6, 1979, Niton Radio, Isle of Wight received a mayday call from the coaster Pool Fisher: 'We are going over, position south west of St Catherine's Point'. Nothing more was...