LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Dorcas
The No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched at 7.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, in answer to distress signals from a vessel to the north of the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat reached the vessel at 8.10 P.M., and found that she was...
Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following is a fairly complete list of the Life-boat Days which have already been arranged for the summer.
The dates, however, are subject to alteration. This list does not include a large number of places where days...
Category: Articles
Two Dinghies (1)
TWO CAPSIZED DINGHIES TAKEN IN TOW Falmouth, Cornwall. At 10.56 on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Nare Head, near Portscatho, and nine...
Teymar
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Chums
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Category: Advertisement
Betty, Hilda II, and Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 18th of January, 1956, the weather worsened while the local fishing boats Betty, Hilda II, and Premier were still at sea, with three men in each boat. At 10.40 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was...
Olinka
KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...
Francis Ann, of Goole
During a heavy gale from E.N.E. on the 20th March, the schooner Frances Ann, of Goole, anchored off this place. Soon afterwards the master, find- ing the vessel had sprung a leak and that her pumps were choked, slipped the cable and made for...
Festina-Lente
Yacht among rocks THE NORWEGIAN YACHT Festina-Lente reported by VHP radio at 1333 on Tuesday December 14, 1982, that her engine and steering gear had failed; she was one mile south of St Helier Harbour entrance.
The yacht...
(Top) Lifeboat Fairleads
(Top) Lifeboat fairleads open to admit the line and then clamp closed. (Right) A fairlead at the stemhead incorporating a roller.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs