LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
by Richard Price The first Trent class to go on service, 14-01 Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma, pictured during her crew training course shortly before leaving for her station. She is exercising a high wire stretcher transfer with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ben Bhrackie
Aith, Shetlands. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the trawler Ben Bhrackie of Aberdeen, which was then twenty-five miles north of Vee Skerries,...
Olive and Mary
ILFRACOMBE.—At 6 A.M. on the 8th April the Coxswain of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 2 was informed that a ketch was about six or seven miles distant in a disabled condition. He at once fired the signal to summon the crew and in six minutes...
Don Bosco
FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morning of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler, later identified as the Belgian trawler Don Bosco, had her engine room on fire, and...
Energy
In the early morning of the 30th September the ketch Energy, of Gloucester, stranded on Bembridge Ledge, and some of the local fishermen went off to her in a large fishing-boat. On arriving at the vessel the captain stated that he would...
Luna y Sol
INJURED MAN Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 3.45 p.m. on 18th March, 1965, the Bantry harbour master informed the honorary secretary that there was a seriously injured man on board the Spanish trawler Luna y Sol twenty miles south of Baltimore. The...
Fishing Boats (1)
— The motor Life-boat Alexander Tulloch was launched at 10.15 A.M. on the 17th March to the assistance of the Peter- head fishing fleet. The morning had been very fine, but at ten o'clock a strong gale suddenly sprang up from the N.E.,...
Two New Appointments
COLONEL J. T. Benn, O.B.E., has been appointed District Organising Secretary for the Midlands in place of Wing Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., who recently resigned. Colonel Benn was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,...
Category: Committee
Resolute, of Peterhead, and Brig A. E. M., of Nantes
At 5 P.M. on the 12th March, when blowing a strong gale from the N., the schooner Resolute, of Peterhead, and brig A. E. M., of Nantes, went ashore on the north-west part of the Goodwin Sands.
The steam-tug Vulcan and Life...
A Royal Air Force Machine
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.
A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.
—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...