LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oceanic (1)
Hartlepool, Durham, and Redcar, Yorkshire. — While bound from the River Tees to Blyth the motor vessel Oceanic, of Newport, Isle of Wight, damaged her steering gear and began to drift. At 1.45 in the morning of the 7th of July, when...
Gazelle
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
Diana
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
The East German M.V. Saale (3)
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans Unveiled for First Time
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans unveiled for first time Coxswain Richard Evans BEM of Moelf re is the subject of an RNLI-commissioned portrait which is to hang in a meeting room at Poole Headquarters.
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Category: Photographs
The American Steamer Charles D. McIver, of Wilmington
AUGUST 5TH - 6TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.28 at night the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities requested the services of the life-boat for a vessel reported sinking. A south-east wind was blowing,...
Wreck of the Life-Boat at The Mumbles
AT 6.10 in the evening of Wednesday, April 23rd, the life-boat at The Mumbles vent out in a gale of exceptional severity to the help of the steamer Samtampa, of Middlesbrough, which had been driven ashore on the rocks off Sker Point, eleven...
Category: Articles
S.S. Thala
FEBRUARY 8TH . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 5 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that S.S. Thala, of London, was ashore on the S.E. corner of the Island of South Uist. She was a vessel of 4,399 tons, laden, and bound...
None (18)
JULY 30TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that he could see three people on the wreck of the minesweeper Unicity on the beach in Blyth Bay. The minesweeper had capsized just eighteen months...
Pacific
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...