LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Regency Belle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.14 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1953, during fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel was making signals on her siren south-east of Whitby Rock Buoy. At 12.29 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Crusader
Margate, Kent.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, with two boys on board, appeared to have broken down and to be drifting seawards. She was one and a half miles...
The Panamanian Cargo Vessel Eastport
PANAMANIAN VESSEL ESCORTED IN GALE Wick, Caithness-shire. Wick harbour authority advised the honorary secretary at three o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, that the 628-ton Panamanian cargo vessel Eastport,...
A Fishing Dinghy
Walmer, Kent. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 25th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a fishing dinghy off the Goodwin Fork buoy were un- able to make headway and were drifting northwards on...
Gallilee, Success, Pilot Me and Provider
MCH. 15TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea.
The sea increased and at 10...
The S.S. Letchworth
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard at the pier head telephoned that a ship was in distress near the Mouse Light-vessel. A fresh wind was blowing. At 3.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Alexander Nelson of Donaghadee. He has been a member of the Donaghadee life-boat crew since 1912. He was appointed bowman in 1929, second coxswain in 1949, and coxswain in 1954. During the period of a...
Category: Articles
Navena
Standing by in Hurricane HAVING RECEIVED information from the Coastguard at 0618 on Thursday, December 6, 1973, that the trawler Navena was ashore on the rocks north of Copinsay Light, the Kirkwall(Orkneys) honorary secretary asked for...
Gifts from Shipping Companies
ON 10th February last, the Angle, Milford Haven, Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the fishing smack Arrowvale, of Milford. The owners, Messrs.
Peter Hancock & Sons, have sent the Institution £2 2s., in...
Category: Donations
Airdrie, of Stranraer
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Airdrie, of Stranraer, was stranded on the Baldoyle Sands, in Dublin Bay, during a gale of wind. The same life-boat went off through a heavy and dangerous sea and rescued the crew of 4 men..