LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George and Martha, and Mizpah (1)
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
Villager, of Inverness
About 9.30 P.M.
on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
November (1)
LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At eight in the evening of the 2nd September, 1942, a visitor reported that several people could be heard shouting for help beneath the cliffs to the east of the harbour. A light westerly wind was blowing, but the sea was...
Category: Services
Dorothy Watson
WHITBURN, Co. DURHAM.—While the schooner Dorothy Watson,of North Shields, was being towed by a steam-tug in company with another vessel in a S.E. wind and a strong ground swell and surf on the 10th July, she was caught by the breakers and...
Cromarty and Hartlepool
The life-boat at Cromarty has been withdrawn and the conventional life-boat at Hartlepool has been replaced with a fast IRB.
These decisions follow a review undertaken by a working party of the Committee of Management of...
Category: Articles
An Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the night of the 31st March, 1938, the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea off Brighton, and was firing Very lights. A light west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor...
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Category: Advertisement
Citrine
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Dowland Studios Lifeboat weather... A shaft of sunlight highlights the new Arun The Queen Mother during trials on a stormy day in January 1989. The lifeboat is to be stationed atThurso, and was due to sail there in March... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harvest Queen
Boulmer, Northumberland.—Very early on the morning of the 17th February the steamer Harvest Queen, of Newcastle- on-Tyne, ran aground at Boulmer Steel. She carried a crew of five, and was bound from Seaham Harbour for Wick with a cargo of...