LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Arbroath, Angus. At 10.50 a.m. on 25th February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there were five fishing boats at sea and the life-boat The Duke of Montrose might be needed to escort the boats through the harbour...
The S.S. Coryton
FEBRUARY 16TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.10 in the morning the coastguard reported to the North Sunderland life-boat station that a ship was ashore on the Farne Islands. She was the S.S....
The S.S. Coryton (1)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.10 in the morning the coastguard reported to the North Sunderland life-boat station that a ship was ashore on the Farne Islands. She was the S.S....
Sensation
ALDEBURGH.—On the morning of the 1st November the coastguard on duty reported that guns were being fired and signal flags shown on board a vessel aground on the Shipwash Sands. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, theTe was a moderately rough...
North Star
JANUARY 2 7TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
From noon onwards a watch was kept for the local motor fishing boat North Star. A strong north-north-east gale was blowing, with a rough sea and snow showers, and all the other boats had...
A Fishing Skiff
Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of November, 1959, the second coxswain came to the conclusion that a 16-ft. fishing skiff with an out- board motor, which had put out at six o'clock and had not returned, might be in danger....
Cymbeline
On the following morning a schooner was seen stranded close to the spot where the Energy had sunk. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 5 o'clock and on reaching the vessel—which proved to be the schooner Cymbeline, of London— the...
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Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.26 on the evening of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two bathers had been seen in difficulties off the Black Rocks. As there would not be enough water near the bathers to...
New Maiden In South London
You would have to have exceptional hearing to claim that New Maiden in South London was within the sound of Bow Bells, but this did not deter Alice Hodgkin (r), catering manager of Spillers Foods, New Maiden from organising a Cockney evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Florette
JANUARY 20TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A heavy easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and violent squalls of hail and snow, and the life-boat coxswain and motor-mechanic had been on the alert for some time when, at 1.2...