LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annie
Three days later the James Stevens No. 15 was again called out, and rescued the crew of seven men of the smack Annie, of Wexford. In answer to her signals of distress, the Life-boat proceded at 7.30 P.M. and found the smack near the bar at...
Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was burning flares north-north-east of Kettleness.
At 1.19 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Helen Mary (1)
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...
Mrs Reed at Cromer
Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, who in 1967 gave the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed in memory of her late husband, Mr. A.
E. Reed, of Stamford, Lincolnshire (THE LIFE-BOAT, September, 1967),...
Category: Articles
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
Category: Services
Haleswell
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 8th October, the schooner Haleswell, of Bridgwater, went ashore outside the Harry Furlongs Bocks, daring a fog. She was observed at 7 A.M., and a boat came ashore from her with two of her crew to ask for the...
Bazar
MONTROSE.—During a moderate breeze from the E.S.E. on the 12th January, the brig Bazar, of Oscarshamn, laden with pit props for the Tyne, was seen off Montrose, steering northwards, trying to clear the land, but evidently becoming embayed....
Bronze Medal for Campbeltown
On the night of March l6th, an American steamer, "Byron Darnton" went ashore on Sanda Island off the Mull of Kintyre. There the Campbeltown lite-boat found her next morning among the rocks. The life-boat had two men ot the island...
Category: Articles
The Electric Winch Used for Hauling Up and Housing Motor Life-Boats
The Electric Winch Used For Hauling Up and Housing Motor Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bob Walton Says Goodbye - and Thank You - to the Salisbury Shoreline Staff
Bob Walton says goodbye—and thank you—• to the Salisbury Shoreline staff.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs