LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (6)
DECEMBER 28TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. A small steamer had been reported drifting in need of help, but the life-boat found that she was a trawler at anchor, and that what had been thought to be a red flag on her fore stay, as a signal...
George Hastings
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 18th of April, 1950, the police reported that a trawler which had just put out had run ashore and was blowing her siren. At 3.50, the life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings in a...
The Three Mastered Schooner Guilia, of Palemo
On the 10th Oc- tober a three-masted schooner was seen at the entrance to the River Tay with a signal of distress flying, the wind blowing a. gale from S.E., with a high sea running. The steam-tug Sampson being sent from Dundee to her aid,...
University Marine Ltd
On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every Evinrude is precision engineered,...
Category: Advertisement
A Motor Cruiser
TOWED TO GORLESTON Culler-coats, Northumberland. At 7.15 p.m. on lyth November, 1963, a message was received from the coastguard by the new Cullercoats life-boat, the Sir James Knott, whilst on passage to her station from Cowes, Isle of...
None (3)
At 9.5 P.M. on 22nd February, the Blakeney Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a flare had been seen between Blakeney and Wells.
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Caroline was launched at 9.45 P.M. in a moderate...
Margarethe
While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy broken sea, on the llth May, the barque Margarethe, of Borgo, Finland, bound from Fleetwood for Canada, stranded on Barnard's Wharf. The Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched...
Aimee-Leone
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 13th August, 1961, news was received that the yacht Aimee-Leone was firing red flares about five hundred yards south-east of Hast- ings harbour. A fresh west-south- westerly wind was blowing...
Goldeve
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 17th of March, 1948, information was received from the har- bour watch-house that a vessel was burning red flares, south of Newhaven Breakwater, and at 8.25 the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
The Maud Smith Award
Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...
Category: Awards