LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
V.L.79 Maas
DUTCH TRAWLER ASHORE Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.50 p.m. on Saturday the 31st of August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler V.L.79, Maas of Vlaardingen, was ashore on the Saltscar rocks, three-quarters of...
DASH TO INJURED FISHERMAN
TYNEMOUTH | 2 OCTOBER
The crew of Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat made a 36-mile mercy dash to rescue an injured fisherman, after the skipper of a French trawler radioed for help. In challenging sea conditions, the lifeboat crew...
Category: Services
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.46 p.m. on 6th July, 1967, while the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was on exercise after engine overhaul, it was reported that a boy was stranded on Porthkerry beach at the Bull Nose. The tide was flooding...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Sir CHARLES WILSON, LL.D., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the dis- tinguished services which he has rendered for very many years past, first as Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Life-boat...
Category: Awards
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OCTOBER 12TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. At 6.30 in the evening a telephone message was received from the local doctor asking the life-boat to take a seriously injured man to Oban. He was a woodman and had had his foot badly crushed while...
Shima
On the evening of the 3rd September the coastguard at Kilchoman reported that a steamer was in distress half a mile west of Colonsay. A strong west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. The new motor life-boat Charlotte...
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A private resident of Paignton telephoned to the Coastguard on the night of 27th April that he had seen a rocket about three miles east of Paignton Head. He thought that it had been fired from a boat in trouble eastward of a line from Berry...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the evening of the llth of October, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick man from Barra to South Uist, as the air ambu- lance could not land because of tidal conditions....
The New Life-Boat on Trials
The new 44-foot steel life-boat of U.S. Coast Guard design seen at Bideford during her summer trials. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emma Walker
SUNDERLAND, NORTH DOCK.—While a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a very rough sea and torrents of sleet and rain, on the 26th October, the ketch Emma Walker, of Sunderland, laden with coal for Wick, attempted to enter the...