LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Tyne's inflatable used to transfer sick woman through surf to lifeboat Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI's Chief of Operations, has written to congratulate Coxswain/mechanic Robert Erskine and his crew for 'a fine team effort...
Sovac Radiant
Dover, Kent.—At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of January, 1952, the Eastern Harbour Arm Signal Station reported that the tanker Sovac Radiant, of Panama, had gone aground in Fan Bay, and at 10.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...
West Country Doctor Honoured
DR. D. I. AITKEN, of Swanage, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum in recognition of the part he played when the Swanage life-boat landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut on ist December, 1966.
At...
Category: Awards
Caragh
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.55 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the honorary secretary, while listening to his radio on the trawler wave band,heard a distress call from the yacht Caragh, stating that she was dragging her anchors over the...
Blue Dolphin
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 4.43 a.m.
on 13th May, 1968, the coastguard reported that a flare had been seen near the North Buxey buoy. The life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin was launched at 5.15 in a south westerly gale with a...
Two Motor Patrol Boats No. 1091, and No. 1086
AUGUST 23RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
About six o’clock in the evening the coastguard reported a small motor vessel aground at the mouth of the River Ugie, two miles north of Peterhead, with a fishing boat standing by....
Life-Boat Day at Blackpool
Ponies and carriage lent to the branch by Mr. Herbert Hagenback, of the Tower Circus, Blackpool.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launching at Cromer
The light motor life-boat of the Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 3 inches.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
A sudden gale from the E.N.E. sprang up on the morning of the 4th December, when the fishing-boats had just reached the fishing-ground. As the sea rose very high, only one boat attempted to shoot any lines; all the others ran for the bay.<...
Fishing Cobles
When four of the fishing cobles were out fishing on the 5th January the sea became heavy, and the danger flag, intimating that it was not safe for them to enter the harbour, was hoisted.
Shortly after one o'clock it was...