LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lowestoft: on September 17 1977 Lowestoft's 47' Watson Lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick Went to the Help of Chycaron; the Motor Cruiser's Engines Were Out of Acti
Lowestoft: On September 17, 1977, Lowestoft's 47' Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick went to the help of Chycaron; the motor cruiser's engines were out of action and her anchor fouled. Two crew members were put aboard and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relatives and Friends Watching the Arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall Lifeboat Bringing Home to Hoy the Seven Coffins
Relatives and friends watching the arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall lifeboat bringing home to Hoy the seven coffins. …. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norwegian Coaster Sonnodd Is Escorted Back Into Mallaig Harbour By the Station Lifeboat Duchess of Kent
The Norwegian coaster Sonnodd is escorted back into Mallaig Harbour by the station lifeboat Duchess of Kent.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
River Tay
NOVEMBER 30TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 1.30 in the morning, a telephone message came from Kyle that a vessel was ashore on the Morven Coast opposite Craignure. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell...
Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Aldeburgh: When at Low Water on August 17 1977 the 42' Beach Lifeboat the Alfred and Patience Gottwald Could Not Clear the Beach on Launching Aldeburgh''s D C
Aldeburgh: When, at low water on August 17, 1977, the 42' Beach lifeboat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald could not clear the beach on launching, Aldeburgh''s D class ILB was launched in an easterly near gale to go to the help of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bonnie Lass
ASHORE ON ROCKS At 10.12 a.m. on iTth June, 1965, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Kindred Star told the coxswain of the life-boat that the motor fishing vessel Bonnie Lass was ashore on the Sheugh Rocks about half a mile north of the...
Castletownbere Lifeboat Crew
L to R: Brendan Connelly, Second Coxswain Michael Martin-Sullivan, Paddy O'Conor, Paul Stevens and Coxswain Brian O'Driscoll (Joseph O'Sullivan Jnr attended the course on another date and is not pictured).. - View image in PDF
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Notes of the Quarter
IN 1957, for the second year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total figure was 716, and the last two years have been the only years in time of peace in which the figure of 700 was exceeded.
Category: Articles
Disasters of Sixty and Fifty Years Ago. The Recollections of Eye-Witnesses
SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
Category: Articles