LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.30 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1948, the local sailing club telephoned that the club secretary had gone out for a sail at 4 o'clock that afternoon in his yacht Glebe, but had not been seen since, and at...
Westralia and Heracles
Yachts on a lee shore A YACHT, Westralia, dragging her anchor in Forth Wen Bay and in danger of going on to rocks was reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Cemaes Bay Coastguard at 2009 on August 30, 1975. Maroons...
Decca Radar Limited
Decca was the first radar set aboard a lifeboat in this country.
That same Decca set is still serving on the same lifeboat; still guiding men through hard seas to safe harbours.
When the call is for solid...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Tora Elise
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 8.12 in the evening of the llth of July, 1948, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Tora Elise, of Arendal, Norway, which was passing to the northward, was flying the ...
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FEBRUARY 2 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 3.45 in the afternoon information was received that the principal keeper at the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse had asked by wireless for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper. The motor...
L.G. Biglow, of Nova Scotia
On the morning of the 11th November the look-outs at this station discovered signals of distress flying from a barque anchored in dangerous proximity to the well-known Tuns Bank at the entrance of Derry Loch. Some time was lost owing to the...
William Miles
POBTHOAWI, SOUTH WALES.—The barque William, Miles, of London, bound from Havre to Swansea in ballast, stranded about half a mile east of Porthcawl, during a W.N.W. wind and a rough sea, at midnight on the 9ih August. She exhibited signals of...
Fishing Cobles
JANUARY 29TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning, while thirteen Filey fishing cobles were at sea, a strong N.E.
wind sprang up. All the regular life-boat crew were out fishing, but ex-coxswain R. C....
A Pontoon
Exmouth, Devon - At 4.11 p.m. on 3rd May, 1967, it was learned that the skipper and six men aboard a pontoon laying a new sewer outfall at Dawlish Warren were marooned. The motor boat, which normally serviced the pontoon, was unable to make...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Dunbar inshore lifeboat returns to harbour after giving display on lifeboat day, July 20. She is a 16' D class inflatable lifeboat built by RFD. Inner tubes fitted within the buoyancy tubes markedly improve air-holding over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs