LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bervor
Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...
Sally
Wells, Norfolk.—There was a thick fog in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, and the owner of the local motor fishing boat Sally reported that she was overdue. He asked for the life-boat to search for her, and at 4.55 the Cecil Paine...
Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 27th of March, 1961, the honorary secretary noticed that six local fishing boats were still at sea. At 10.10, when the life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was launched, there was a fresh...
Venture
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 10.30 a.m. on I2th June, 1964, inshore rescue boat no. 7 was launched in a strong easterly breeze and rough sea to the aid of the fishing vessel Venture, which was stranded on the bar entrance. One of the crew of two...
Dave Kennett
Coxswain Yarmouth Arun class lifeboat Bronze medal 28 October 1989 SW winds reached Force 11 during Coxswain Kennett's long and arduous service to a Ro-Ro ferry off Swanage in the Relief Arun class lifeboat Margaret Russell Fraser. Her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Cobles
Four cobles of Spittal and Berwick went out during the forenoon on the 6th April to recover their gear, which they had been obliged to abandon three days previously owing to heavy winds. They proceeded to Goswick Bay, and had hardly...
Naming Ceremonies
TENBY H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Tenby life-boat Henri) Comber Brown at Tenby on the 2nd of June, 1956, and later went afloat in the life-boat. The life-boat has been built out of legacies from...
Category: Inaugurations
John Nelson and Sea Gull
ORME'S HEAD.—On the afternoon of the 1st February the Life-boat Sunlight No. 1 was launched in response to signals of distress shown by vessels in the bay while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a rough sea. The boat took off...
The Milford Haven Steam Trawler Star of Don
OCTOBER 20TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 9.30 at night a life-boatman reported distress signals from the Milford Haven steam trawler Star of Don, which was in Killeany Bay to the south of the life-boat station. A strong north-east wind was blowing,...
Andaman and Fortune
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...