LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ava
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.40 Ott the evening of the 19th of April, 1957^ the coastguard telephoned to say ft German tanker had reported a small vessel drifting near the East Shoebury buoy. At 8.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Empire Queen of Dublin
On the 5th August, the ship Empire Queen, of Dublin, was stranded during foggy weather on the south end of the Arldovv Bank. The life-boat Alfred and Ernest, sta- tioned at Courtown, went out, in reply to signals of distress, and at the...
A Motor Boat
Three overboard FOLLOWING reports of three men overboard from a motor boat off Bangor Harbour, Belfast Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Bangor lifeboat station at 1849 on July 21, 1987 and the station's D class inflatable...
The City of Leeds Life-Boat
IN 1949 the Leeds branch of the Institution launched a special appeal for £10,000 to provide a life-boat to be named The City of Leeds. The appeal was under the patronage of the late Earl of Harewood, who contributed generously to it,...
Category: Donations
The Dutch 45' Steel Motor Barge Minnie Ha Ha
CLACTON COASTGUARD intercepted a message from Warden Point Coastguard to Margate Coastguard at 1556 on July 15, 1974, advising that red flares had been sighted by MV Moreton Bay between No. 9 and No. 10 Buoys in Black Deep Channel. Mansion...
Silver and Gold Also, and Even Notes
Saturday.—Life-boat Saturday — splendid institution—come now, you other chaps, fork out your subscriptions; Pee unfortunately left my parse at home (not that there's anything in it). Bat come, chuck 'em a copper—silver or gold will...
Category: Articles
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harmony
About 9 P.M. on the 9th May the wind began to freshen from the north and quickly increased to a whole gale, causing ,a very rough sea. The fishing- boat Harmony, of Eyemouth, was at the j time lying to her nets, and found it impossible to...
Navigator
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—A dense fog was experienced here on the 24th July, accompanied by rain, thunder and much lightning. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon the fog cleared, and disclosed vessel just striking the inside of the Barber Sand....
Integrity
STRANDED IN FOG Anstruther, Fife. At 9.15 a.m.
on 22nd May, 1964, a representative of a boatbuilders' firm at St. Monance asked if the life-boat would help the motor fishing vessel Integrity of St. Monance which had...