LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Outboard-Powered Boat
Two saved by brothers andjifeboat The quick thinking of two young men who were about to take a swim in the Teign estuary undoubtedly saved the life of at least one of two people who were thrown into the water when their small outboardpowered...
Two B.E.M's.
Coxswain William Swankie, of Arbroath, who won the bronze medal of the Institution in February, 1940, for going to the help of a barge which wa» being bombed by a German aeroplane, and Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down,...
Category: Articles
A Small Fishing Boat
— On the 6th March during a strong S.W.
gale Coxswain J. Cameron, of the new motor Life-boat Alexander Tullocli, observed a small fishing-boat in a perilous position about four miles to the north of Peterhead. Her sails had...
Fred Olsen Fund Another
Fred Olsen fund another Fred Olsen, who have been fantastic supporters of the RNLI for several years, are also very close to completing the funding of another Atlantic 75. In fact, Its probably more accurate to say that the passengers and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Empire Parsons
JANUARY 12TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.34 P.M. the Kirkwall coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the east side of Stroma, and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 10.15 P.M. A S.S.E.
gale...
A Motor Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 8.12 on the evening of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sixteen-feet outboard motor boat with an amateur frogman on board was overdue. The frogman had left Port Bradden...
Hermann
On the 28th January, at 3 A.M., signal lights were seen in the direction of the Barber Sand. A yawl proceeded there and found the schooner Hermann, of Berwick, bound from Hull to London with deal boards, ashore., As it was feared that the...
The S.S. Seaford
Margate, Kent. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1959, the watchman of the local pilot cutter informed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Seaford of London, asking for a doctor, as the...
Violet
LIFE-BOAT ASSISTS GROUNDED MOTOR BOAT Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.35 p.m.
on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the Orlock coastguard told the motor mechanic that a man had reported a boat stranded on the rocks at the north end...
The French Racing Yacht Eloe
FRENCH YACHT'S DIFFICULTY At 4.40 p.m. on the same day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dismasted about i\ miles west of the Needles. There was a rough sea with a near gale from the southwest; the weather was...