LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tesla
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 5.50 in the morning, on the 27th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Rattray Head. At 6.10 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgoiv, was launched. The...
Dorothy
Margate, Kent. — At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a fishing vessel was aground on Margate sands.
The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 2.45.<...
Dover:
Dover: On Saturday September 10, 1983, a day of north-westerly gales and rough seas, Dover's 50ft Thames lifeboat Rotary Service, under the command of Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins, was just returning to harbour from one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Industry
LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.—At midnight on the 29th March the trawler Industry, of Lowestoft, while homeward bound, went ashore on the Newcome Sands.
A strong wind was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea at the time....
Two Rigid Inflatable Boats
D Class rescues man in shallow water and heavy breaking seasJohn Pearson, helmsman of Whitby's D class inshore lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for his seamanship and bravery following a service in conditions at the...
Jean
TWO SAVED AFTER MOTOR BOAT STRIKES ROCK Coverack, Cornwall. At 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th of July, 1963, the second coxswain and the mechanic told the honorary secretary that a motor boat had run ashore on rocks half a mile south-west of...
Celtic
Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 14th October, 1939, a sailing barge was seen dragging her anchor off Margate Jetty. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was decided to send out the motor lifeboat Lord Southborough...
Mystery
CAISTER.—On the 6th November, flare lights having been seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden proceeded out, and found the fishing-smack Mystery, of Great Yar- mouth, just off the sand. She was partly...
Annie Walker
During a S.W. moderate gale and moderate sea on the afternoon of the 7th March, the steam-trawler Annie Walker, of Dundee, stranded on the Annat Bank, and about 6 P.M. a tug went to her, but her assist- ance was declined. About 7.20 how-...
Paviroma
Weymouth, Dorset.— About 7.55 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned a message received from the British steamer Megara that she was standing by the yacht Paviroma, of Southampton, fourteen miles...