LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guus
At 11.4 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, a vessel was seen flashing a light south of the harbour entrance. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate sea. The life-boat Kathleen Mary launched at 11.30 at low water and proceeded to the...
Shoreline
WE ARE DELIGHTED to be able to publish below a photograph of the lifeboatmen of Blyth, the port at which the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed; and on page 81 is reported a fine service in which both Shoreline and...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Two launches THE MUMBLES LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) launched twice in the storms of August 14, 1979. The first launch, at 0735, was to stand by while the tug Hendon brought a yacht manned by two people through...
A Fishing Coble
15th November. A Filey fishing coble was missing, but she was found by the Filey life-boat.—Rewards, £18 11s. (An account of the Filey service appears on page 210.).
Regina
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.— Shortly after 8 A.M. on the 4th October, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Kenfig Sands. She was the M.V. Regina, of Rotterdam. A strong W. gale was blowing, with squalls and a very heavy ground...
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Hoylake, Cheshire. At 5.50 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1959, the police at Hoylake told the coxswain that two young men who had gone swimming from Hilbre Island at 4.15 had not returned to the beach. At 6.35 the life- boat Oldham IV...
A Sailing Dinghy
A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...
Pippa
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a German ship was standing by a British yacht, which had burnt red flares and had asked for the help of the life-boat. At...
Comitas
Whitby, Runswick, Redcar and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th October the Italian steamer Comitas, of Genoa, left the Tees to go to Hartlepool for cargo. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...
Johnson's Experimental Rotary Unit Outboard Engine Was Shown By E P Barms
Johnson's experimental rotary unit outboard engine was shown by E. P. Barms.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs