LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Canoes
At 1.5 P.M. on the 21st June the coxswain was told by the coastguard that two canoes were in difficulties in Kessingland Bay, about two and a half miles S.S.W. of the south pier. A moderate southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea. The...
A Relief Boat and a Pilot Boat
PILOT BOAT TAKES RELIEF BOAT IN TOW Clogher Head, Co. Lough. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 10th July, 1962, the honorary secretary received a message from the Baily lighthouse that the small relief boat for the Dundalk lighthouse was...
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...
Terry Simmons, Centre, With His Sons Scott, Left, and Stephen, Who Has Recently Joined the Crew. Photo: Eastern Daily Press
Terry Simmons, centre, with his sons Scott, left, and Stephen, who has recently joined the crew. Photo: Eastern Daily Press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Functional Clothing
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Category: Advertisement
A Launch
Cadets and yachtsmen saved by Arun's Y-boat Force 5 onshore winds made life difficult for the crew of Troon's Arun City of Glasgow III when they had to launch their Y-boat twice during July to take survivors off a lee shore.
Firth Fisher
SEAMAN LANDED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.55 a.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the chairman of the branch committee that the motor vessel Firth Fisher was heading for Portpatrick with an injured seaman aboard. A doctor, who...
Scotland's Year.
1942 was Scotland's year. Scottish life-boatmen rescued 357 of the 596 lives, and the two stations of Great Britain and Ireland which rescued most lives were Peterhead, with 135, and Campbeltown with 74. Scotland also won 18 of the 38...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. A very active membership The London Boat Show always gets our membership recruitment off to a good start for the year, and 1990 was no exception.
Our resident team of recruiters...
Category: Articles
Sunshine
Amble, Northumberland. At 9.10 on the morning of the 29th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Sunshine of Port Seton was making for Amble. Because of the severe weather it was suggested that...