LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Cutter
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.50 on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with two people aboard had capsized four miles north-east of Durban Point. At six o'clock the life- boat Watkin...
Captain Returns to Wreck Spot
ON 27TH OCTOBER, 1927, an Italian seaman spent the night clutching the rigging of the stricken 6,oooton s.s. habo, an Italian merchantman, which had foundered on the Scilly Rocks at the Isles of Scilly. The next morning he was snatched to...
Category: Articles
Avra
JANUARY 31ST. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. The Greek steamer Avra, of Andros, had gone ashore at Yealm River, but she was able to refloat, and although badly damaged, managed to reach Plymouth - Rewards : Salcombe, £7 17s. ; Torbay,...
Yellow Brick Rowed
Maldon Little Ship Club held their annual sponsored row on New Years Day which raised £9,000 for Maldon and District branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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PRIEST TAKEN TO STORM-BOUND ISLAND Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 30th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a call from the priest of Tory Island, who was stormbound on the mainland, that a woman was...
Leeds Saturn
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—During the early hours of the llth of April, 1956, it was reported that a vessel had run ashore forty yards north of the coastguard station. At 3.30 the life-boat Michael Stephens put out. There was a moder- ate sea, a...
Kerry
Running into danger ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday September 11, 1981, the 26ft yacht Kerry left Douglas, Isle of Man, bound for Glasson Dock, Lancaster, crewed by two men.
Although the weather and visibility were good, there...
A Broadcast from Walmer to America
IN July, 1948, Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer, recorded a talk for the National Broadcasting System of Ke y York, to be broadcast in America.
"Hullo, America! "This is Freddy Upton, coxswain of the Walmer...
Category: Articles
A Word to Our Well-Wishers
It must be obvious to any one who reflects on the subject for a moment, that the low price of 1 1/2d. at which this Journal is sup- plied, for the express purpose of bringing it within the reach of fishermen and boatmen, cannot cover the...
Category: Articles
Yvonne Risager and May Queen
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 6.50 on the morning of the 19th of July, 1957, the coxswain received a telephone message that the motor fishing vessel Yvonne Risager was in difficulties with a fouled propeller ten miles west of May Island.