LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sandra
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of the 1st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor yacht had broken down just off the Brake sands. There was no wind and the sea was smooth.
At 10.18...
Dawn
OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the entrance to Strangford Lough. A strong westerly breeze was...
Fishing Cobles
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 26th February the fishing cobles went out line fishing at about 6 A.M., there being then a light N.E. wind. At 10 o'clock the wind shifted to the E. and commenced to blow strongly, accompanied by a very...
A Small Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 15th July four visitors, two men and two women, put out in a small boat from Benllech.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The boat soon got out of control and was carried away...
The S.S. Etna
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Etna, of Stock- holm, had wirelessed that she had gone aground on the Skerrinoe Rocks off the east coast...
Colours Paraded
Colours paraded Kilkeel lifeboat crew member Earnest McKee, escorted by fellow crew members Geoffrey Annett and John Fisher, carried the colours of the RNLI at the National Service for Seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 20... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Cushendon
MARCH 30TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. At 8.55 P.M. the naval authorities at Appledore asked the life-boat to go to a vessel flying signals of distress two miles east of Clovelly.
A moderate W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Margaret Murray
— On the 23rd December, during a strong south-west- erly breeze and rough sea, the schooner Margaret Murray, of Padstow, stranded on a sandbank to the eastward of the harbour. As it was thought that, with the assistance of steam power, it...
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Ingrid
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 6.2jp.m. onzoth August, 1966, an aircraft had reported a small boat making distress signals about two miles west of the life-boat house. The life-boat Lucy Lovers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 6.30...