LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Krab
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.57 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1954, the Fifeness coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Krab, of Gdynia, had run ashore half a mile east of Leven. At 7.12 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Lifeboat Services
No. 7 Life-boat Area DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported...
Category: Services
Premier and Kingfisher
TWO COBLES ESCORTED IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the llth January, 1962, it was decided to launch the life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield at three o'clock in the afternoon to escort two local fishing cobles into harbour as the...
Keeping Watch
Portsmouth lifeboat volunteers Peter Slidel and Tina Parkinson were going about their daily lives on 27 February when a drama started to unfold before them.
Peter says: ‘I was enjoying a coffee at Tina’s burger van when I...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—Towards dusk on the 17th February, considerable anxiety was felt regarding three of the fishingcobles which had not returned to port and, as a strong wind was blowing and the sea was becoming heavy, the Life-boat...
Fishing Boats (1)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the 17th October, 1961, several local fishing boats were at sea, and as the weather was rapidly deteriorating it was decided to launch the life-boat to escort them to harbour. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...
British Queen
PORT ISAAC, CORNWALL.—On the 26th March, at about 1 P.M., the schooner British Queen, of Wexford, bound from that port to Porthcawl in ballast, was observed to be in distress. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.W., and there was...
Helen Hutchnson
During a, strong W.N.W. gale with heavy sea on the 28th January the schooner Helen Hutcliesou, of Peterhead, at anchor in the Roadstead, showed signals of distress after an unsuccessful attempt by the vessel's crew to land in their own...
Swimming for Swanage
The Reading branch of the British Sub Aqua Club visit Swanage at least once a month all the year round, and this year they decided to give the station half the sponsorship money raised from a threemile swim in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May Queen
Eastbourne, Sussex. — During the afternoon of the 5th April, 1938, with a fresh west breeze blowing and a moderate sea, the motor yacht May Queen, of Lowestoft, bound from there to Littlehampton, was capsized about a mile off Eastbourne...