LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Equerry
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the harbour master reported that the trawler Equerry, of Grimsby, which was in Peterhead Bay on her way to the fishing grounds, had an injured man on board....
A Sailing Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.24 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Littlestone, tipping two people into the sea. At 4.38 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
Widgeon
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.27 in the evening of the 20th of October, 1951, the Mid-Barrow Lightvessel reported that the cabin cruiser Wid- geon, of Ramsgate, which had broken her rudder, was tied up astern of the lightvessel and in need of...
Today
The new Gourdon life-boat, Edith Clauson - Thue. They are of the same type, the light Liverpool, but sixteen years have changed it. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Iris
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.31 in the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the West Mersea police had reported a fishing boat drifting towards Colne, and at 12.48 the life-boat Edward...
Arripay
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 30th of January, 1948, the crew of three of the motor barge Arripay, of London, abandoned her in a rowing boat, during a south-westerly gale near the Swin Bell Buoy, with three feet of water in her engine-room....
Beacon
Margate, Kent. — At 12.14 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1948,.
the coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles to the north-north- west, and at 12.30 the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil...
Provider A, Easier Morn, Gem, Venus and Enterprise
Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the morning of the 26th of April, 1949, there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance that would endanger the return of the fishing boats. When five were seen approaching two members of the harbour pulling...
A Rowing Boat
Valentia, Co. Kerry. — At 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th of June, 1949, the Cahirciveen Civic Guard reported a rowing boat, with a broken oar and one adult and four children on board, drifting seawards off Kells. Twenty minutes...
Prize-Winning Essay
A competition, open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen, for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held this year. The competition had been held regularly before the war, but it had not been...
Category: Articles