LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saga Surf
Penlee, Cornwall - At n p.m. on 25th December, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed to meet the tanker Saga Surf which had a very sick man on board. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
Bessey III
LIFE-BOAT COXSWAIN DIES AFTER HIS FISHING BOAT SINKS Coverack, Cornwall. On Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, a telephone message was received by the second coxswain from the mechanic that the fishing vessel Bessey III, of Coverack, owned by...
Escape
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht at Pollard Spit was signalling and needed help. At 9.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched....
Income and Expenditure for 1933
EXPENDITURE.
Life-boats :— £ s. d. £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberystwyth, Anstruther, Dungeness, Exmouth, Lizard, Llandudno, Longhope,...
Category: Accounts
Helena Mena
PALLING, NORFOLK.—A message by telephone was received on the 14th August, reporting that a large barque was aground on the Hasborough Sand. The Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 8.15 a.m., and found the barque Helena Mena, of London,...
Whitstable October 27 1987:
WHITSTABLE, October 27, 1987: the station's Atlantic 21 shepherds the yacht Porta Coeli into harbour after she had fired distress flares, drifting near the Spaniard buoy. She had suffered engine failure and her lone occupant had been in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Random Harvest
Montrose, Angus. During the after- noon of the llth of September, 1959, reports reached Montrose that the fishing boat Random Harvest had been in collision and was being escorted into harbour by the Aberdeen trawler Strathlossie. At 4.40 it...
Hazel
Montrose, Angus. At 9.15 on the morning of the llth October, 1961, the ex-coxswain of the life-boat, Mr. James Paton, heard his son, who is the present coxswain, calling by radio for the help of the life-boat. The son at the time was fishing...
Ruby
Peel, Isle of Man.—Shortly after one •o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th •of August, 1950, the harbour master notified the honorary secretary that the local fishing yawl Ruby, overdue with a <^rew of two, had broken down at White...
Catherine
During a strong E.N.E. gale on the 12th May the fishing boat Catherine, of Arbroath, whilst returning to Harbour was in considerable danger owing to the heavy sea running, and there was some proba- bility of her being dashed on to the rocks....