LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Richard Crofts
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 6.50 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1953, the Stornoway coastguards re- ported that the trawler Richard Crofts, of Milford Haven, was ashore between Coll and Tiree. A strong south-south- westerly...
Three Brothers, Victory Rose,Gem,Lead Us, Pilot Me,Faith Star,Venus,Galilee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 21st of May, 1955, the local fishing fleet was at sea when the weather worsened, and at eight o'clock the No. 1 life-boat J. W. Archer, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with an...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 8.40 on the evening of the 28th of January, 1958, a doctor at Walls told the honorary secretary that a patient was very seri- ously ill on the island of Foula and hospital treatment was necessary. The island's boat...
Heron
GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...
Frandor
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 4.4 on the afternoon of 21st April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had occurred aboard the motor vessel Frandor in a position four miles south- west-by-west...
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Nov. 21ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A message was received in the evening that an explosion and distress signals had been heard east of Withernsea, and the life-boat was launched at 7.35 P.M., just as an attack by a German...
(Left) Stuart Crystal Chalice Made for Rnli 150th Anniversary In Limited Numbered Edition Of150 One Panel Etched and Engraved Depicts Henry Greathead's Original Lifeb
(Left) Stuart Crystal chalice made for RNLI 150th anniversary in limited numbered edition of150. One panel, etched and engraved, depicts Henry Greathead's Original lifeboat, with, on reverse, the RNLI crest and dates... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steam Trawler
MARCH 29TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 10.30 in the morning the honorary secretary was on watch on the cliffs above Ballycotton when he saw a steam trawler about eight and a half miles south of Ballycotton. She was blowing off steam, as if...
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JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 10.25 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Lerwick asked for the services of the life-boat to bring three wounded German airmen from Fair Isle, where their Heinkel bomber had been...