LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two R.N.L.I. Life-Boats Leave for Guatemala
Two RNLI Life-Boats Leave For Guatemala. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Milgate
At 7 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd November, a message was received from the Coast- guard, stating that a vessel was in dis- tress about four miles to the east of Newhaven. The signal was fired, and within a quarter of an hour the...
The S.S. Ford Fisher
MAY 24TH. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 12.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that distress signals were being made on a vessel’s siren. The weather was foggy. There was no wind, but a slight sea. At 12.45 P.M...
Providence
The ketch Providence, of Goole, bound from Hull to Wells with a cargo of oil cake, parted her anchors during a strong N.N.E.
gale when off the bar, on the 1st April.
Signals of distress were hoisted, and...
Fisher Girls In the Procession on Edinburgh Life-Boat Day
The Day raised over £1,000.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sonia and Majestic
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 1.19 p.m. on 1st November, 1969, it was learnt that the motor boat Sonia was in difficulties about two miles south east by east of Tyne piers. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 1.26 in a gale force west...
Yarmouth Isle of Wight and Poole:
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal award
Portrush Mechanic Anthony Chambers is to be awarded the RNLI’s Bronze Medal for Gallantry, for his part in saving the lives of two boys who got trapped in a cave with the tide rising.
Anthony risked his life swimming in...
Category: Articles
Brothers
On the 17th February the local fishing coble Brothers did not return to port with the other boats, and a look-out was kept for her. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and snow showers. Eventually she was seen about three miles...
Jean Horsley
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 2.47 early on the morning of the 9th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat off the Palliser Works, north of Hartlepool, was burning flares, and at 3.15 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service...