LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gay Star
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 8.18 p.m.on 3ist January, 1967, a fishing vessel, whose engines had failed, was reported to be drifting on to the rocks two miles south east of the South Stack lighthouse.
The life-boat Lady Jane and...
Amy
During a strong easterly gale on 23rd November a signal of distress was observed on the barge Amy, of London, which was dragging her anchor off Hythe. The Life-boat Meyer de Rothschild was launched with considerable difficulty, owing to the...
Ofelia
CREW OF SWEDISH VESSEL LANDED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.20 on the morning of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was ashore on Fladdachuain Island three miles west of Trodday Island....
Rosemary (1)
Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.32 a.m. on I2th June, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that an open fishing boat, Rosemary, with one man on board was seven hours overdue. The lifeboat Kathleen Mary was launched at 2.15 in thick...
Ard Carna
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Left: Brighton Lifeboat Crew
Left: Brighton lifeboat crew members and SEA Check coordinator Tony Clare snatch the trophy for the fastest RNLI crew team for the sixth year running.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pindos
The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...
None (3)
Dover, Kent. At 7.17 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a man on a bicycle had gone over the wall into the eastern dock. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
TWO YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED Hastings, Sussex. At 12.15 p.m. on Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the skipper of the fishing vessel Rose that a small sailing dinghy had apparently capsized and that there was the body of...
Iona
TEIGNMOITTH.— The Arnold Life-boat put off at 11 P.M. on the 18th December to the assistance of the fishing-smack lona, which had not returned to Harbour, the weather being thick, the wind freshening, and the sea becoming very rough with a...