LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Smack
Singularly enough, the services of the Life-boat were again called into requisition, after an interval of three days had elapsed, making the third time she had been actively engaged in the course of a week.
A small open,...
Transporting An Oak Crook
This crook weighed about 1 3/4tons and came from Suffolk.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nelly Fleming
On the afternoon of the 8th January, the Avonmouth haven master telephoned that a ship had gone aground on the Welsh Hook, seven cables N.W. by W.
of the Welsh Hook Buoy, and was lying in a dangerous position. A fresh...
Volesus, of Grimsby, and Lord Nelson
Injured crews THE HARBOUR MASTER of Bridlington, Yorkshire, informed the honorary secretary at 1320 on Friday, December 28, 1973, that the trawler VolesusofGrimsby had an injured man aboard. The relief lifeboat Calouste Giilbenkian was...
Buttons and Cards:
Buttons and cards: sorting through a few of the hundreds of thousands of buttons and postcards that were sent in by viewers of BBC TVs Blue Peter are one of the programme's presenters, Janet Ellis, and Duncan Chilcott of Phillips Fine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Steel Venture
Two lifeboats from Moelfre save fishing boat and crew service by Moelfre's two lifeboats has led framed letters of appreciation signed by chairman of the RNLI for Helmsman Rodney Pace and crew member Anthony Barclay of the D class...
Inveresk
ABERSOCH.—During the gale of the 7th October, the barque Inveresk, of and for Liverpool from Nova Scotia, was seen running under bare poles direct for the east end of St. Patrick's Causeway. The Life-boat Mabel Louisa proceeded to her...
Sea Flower
COBLE ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Blyth, Northumberland. At 5.36 on the evening of the 15th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Newbiggin coble fishing from Blyth was making heavy weather between a mile and two miles...
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Clovelly, Devon. At 4.45 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1960, a message was received that the owner of Lundy Island had injured his hand so badly that he needed medical attention urgently. No other boat being available, the...
Kathleen
At 8.37 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, it was noticed that a motor boat one mile northnorth- west of Cape Cornwall had fired a distress rocket. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 8.45 in a strong north-westerly wind and a very rough sea....