LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duchess of Leith
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
Fundraising
'RNLI day' reader offer National Boat Shows Ltd (NBS) has supported the RNLI for more than 25 years, donating free stand space and berths at both the London and Southampton International Boat Shows. This has enabled the RNLI to build...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Hayle
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather was hazy....
Tafner
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1957, the motor mechanic and bowman reported to the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on North Rock. At four o'clock the life-boat Constance Calverley was...
Remedy, of Whitstable
The Royal Wiltshire life-boat at Dover remained alongside the schooner Remedy, of Whitstable, which was in a dan- gerous position near the Admiralty Pier, until the vessel was got but of danger.
Thornton, of New York
The Willie and Arthur life-boat at New Brighton rescued 13 men from the ship Thornton, of New York, which became a total wreck on the "West Middle Sands.
Rosyth
Early on the morn- ing of the 26th April the steamer Rosyth, of Dundee, bound from Goole to Bou- logne with a cargo of coal, ran on to the Goodwin Sands E. by N. of the Brake light-vessel. The coastguard reported her, and the motor life-boat...
Frame and Skin
The first skin of mahogany being put over the framework of rock elm and oak on the 41-feet Beach type of motor life-boat stationed at Dungeness. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yacht Alethea II
At 8.10 P.M. on the 30th August the coast- guard at Totland telephoned that a small yacht was burning red flares near Elbow Buoy. A fresh S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat...
The Lighthouse Tender Pharos
Arbroath, Angus. — At 11.30 P.M.
on the 16th November, 1938, the police reported that the lighthouse tender Pharos was to land a sick lightkeeper from the Bell Rock. A strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was too...