LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ethel and Mother's Joy
The Coastguard reported about 4 P.M. on 4th December that the two local fishing boats Ethel and Mother's Joy were in distress ofi Seaham, and a few minutes later the Motor Life-boat Elliot Galer put out.
A whole...
Penton
The motor cruiser Penton, of Cardiff, with three men on board, was making for Barry on the night of the 25th-26th June, when, through a defect in her machinery, she was obliged to anchor near Friars Point. Her anchors dragged and she lighted...
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
Category: Donations
A Small Boat
BOAT-THIEVES RESCUED W aimer, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morn- ing of the 1st of November, 1947, a wireless message from the South Good- win Light-vessel said that she had picked up a small boat with two men aboard, and wanted the life-boat to go...
Her First Launch
The new life-boat Tynesider. She is a 46 ft. 9 ins. Watson cabin motor life-boat and went to the station on the 29th of November, 1947. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of July, 1948, information was received that a sailing dinghy from Cork had capsized in the bay between Red Buoy and Capel Island, and at 6.15 the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah...
Hyskeir II
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.35 on the night of the 23rd of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard reported a tele- phone message from the Isle of Gigha that the motor yacht Hyskeir II, of Greenock, was aground on a reef to the north of...
Scarcity
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.46 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Scarcity, of London, that her rudder was not working. She was ten miles north- east-by-east of...
H.M. Tug Mediator
Humber, Yorkshire. — At 12.10 in the morning of the 27th of May, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard tele- phoned that the tug Scotsman, of Hull, which had been helping H.M.
tug Mediator to tow a naval vessel, was making...
Thistle
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was drifting close to Gailes shore. At 11.55 the life-boat James...