LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Outsider
At 1.30 P.M.
| on the 1st January during moderately i rough weather Acting Coxswain Culham I received a message stating that a barge appeared to be in difficulties. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 at once...
Naming Ceremonies In Scotland
Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.
They are both gifts from Glasgow.
St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
Little Mariner
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the afternoon of the 29th May the coastguard telephoned that a yacht off Chesil Beach, about fourteen miles by sea from Weymouth, was flying distress signals. A freshening W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Lady Molly
GUIDED TO BOAT BY PARAFFIN FLARES Hastings, Sussex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, two members of the local angling club reported that the motor boat Mahaba was overdue. There was a light northeast breeze with a smooth sea....
Gannet
NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIBE.—Signals of distress having been seen from a vessel stranded on the North Sands during a moderate S.W. wind and a choppy sea, on the 27th January, the crew of the Lifeboat 'Alexander Charles and William Aird were...
Texan
COURTMACSHERRY, Co. CoBK.—On the evening of the 20th July a large steamer was reported in distress in Sevenheads Bay. The weather at the time was foggy, there was no wind, and the sea was smooth.
At 6 P.M., the Life-boat...
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On the even- ing of the 1st April, two soldiers were observed to be surrounded by the tide, on the North Warp Bank, about three miles from Flectwood. The Coastguard imme- diately launched their boat and went to the rescue ; they reached the...
Sceptre
MAY 8TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched at 10 A.M. to the help of the motor fishing boat Sceptre, of Sunderland, which was aground on the rocks to the south side of the harbour. The sea was smooth....
Golden Charter
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Category: Advertisement
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Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 9.2 on the evening of the 6th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men were marooned on Black Rock and were in danger of being carried out to sea. At 9.16 the life-boat Lady Scott...