LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hoylake Life-Boat and An IRB Seen Recently When Trials Were Taking Place on the River Dee
Hoylake Life-Boat and An Irb Seen Recently When Trials Were Taking Place on the River Dee. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Klondike
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The s.s. Klondike, of Laurvig, in ballast from Hartlepool for Blyth, stranded in Gambols Bay while a moderate breeze was blowing from S.S.W., with a moderate sea, on the night of the 15th September. The weather was...
Canoes
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 12.30 p.m. on 8th March, 1964, the lifeboat Dunleary II went to the mouth of the River Liffey to escort several canoes across Dublin Bay. The canoes had taken part in a race organized in connection with the...
(Above) Leaving Jersey the Queen Mother Is Cheered on Her Way By the Lifeboat Crew Photograph By Courtesy of Jersey Evening Post
(Above) Leaving Jersey, The Queen Mother is cheered on her way by the lifeboat crew . . . - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Jersey Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
JANUARY 1 5TH. - ABERDEEN. Four fishing boats had been reported to be overdue, but three of them returned unaided.
No trace of the fourth, with a crew of two, could be found. - Rewards, £10 6s. 3d..
A Steamer (7)
MARCH 24TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A steamer had been reported in distress north of the South Bishop Lighthouse, but no vessel in need of help was found. - Rewards, £6 12s..
A Ship’s Raft
JUNE 29TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A large, damaged ship’s raft, with no-one on board, had been seen drifting, but the seas prevented the life-boat from taking it in tow.
- Rewards, £5 18s..
Pierre-Louis
FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.32 on the night of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground at the end of the north pier of Lowestoft...
Britisher
JANUARY 16TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 1.15 P.M. it was reported that a barge, disabled and burning distress flares, was driving towards the Newcome Sands.
A whole N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
Cairngorm
DEC. 14TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO.
WATERFORD. The motor ship Cairngorm, of Glasgow, shortly after taking a pilot aboard, went aground on the west side of Waterford Harbour, one and a half miles from Dunmore East. Distress...