LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Susan, Olivia Mary
At 5.18 p.m. on i6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a motor boat with three people on board was in need of assistance one and a half miles east north east of Foreness point. The IRB was launched at 5.22 in a fresh...
A Trawler
Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...
Red Lancer
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Red Lancer, with a crew of nineteen, was ashore on the Reef Rocks at the entrance to Stornoway harbour. At nine...
H.M. Trawler Dunraven Castle
JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 7.6 at night a telephone call was received from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Dunraven Castle had run aground on Iron Rock Ledges, Isle of Arran,...
Fishing Boats (2)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—On the morning of the 18th February the local fishing fleet put to sea, but the weather grew bad and all but four boats returned.
At 10 A.M. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched, to...
None (17)
HELP FOR PATIENT At 6.30 p.m. on i8th September, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young girl was suffering from acute appendicitis, and that no other suitable boat was available to take her to the mainland. There was...
Selling a Dummy!
For seven years Gladys the life-saving lady has stood guard outside Peter Humphriss' shop in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and over the years she has collected several thousand pounds for the RNLI from the many tourists who visit the New... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morn- ing of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were being tested as she lay at moorings. At half past eleven the coxswain noticed a small boy being carried out to sea in a...
Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1951, the coxswain reported that the local hshing coble Hilda II was off Red Cliff and making for Scarborough in bad weather. It would have been dangerous for her to enter...
Fishing Cobles (2)
STAITHES, YoBxsmM.—The sudden rising of the sea, on the 17th April, rendered it dangerous for some of the fishing cobles to return to the shore.
The Life-boat Jonathan Stott was therefora launched at about 1.15 P.M. and...