LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Tug Swarthy and H.M.S. Saltburn (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. During a south-westerly gale, with very rough seas, the naval authorities at Portsmouth asked the Bembridge life-boat to go to the help of two ships in distress off Horse Sands...
Daniel
LLANDDWYN.—The smack Daniel, of Bangor, was seen approaching the bar while a strong breeze was blowing from the S.W., with a rough sea and thick weather, on the evening of the 1st February. The vessel was at first steering for the South...
Boy Bob
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 5.15 P.M. on the 9th February, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that the local fishing boat Boy Bob had gone out early that day to haul her lines off Gardenstown,...
Franklin Mint Limited,
INSPIRED BY CLASSIC ENCJLISH LANTERN CLOCKS OF THE 1600s, THE NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPONSORS THE INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CLOCK A Barometer, Thermometer, Compass and Clock - in a Superb Re-creation of an Antique Ship's...
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A Hunter Aircraft (2)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
Two Dinghies
TWO DINGHIES TOWED At 7.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that three youths who had hired one of his boats were having difficulty in returning and that he had sent out an outboard motor...
The Corton Lightvessel
SICK MAN ON A LIGHT-VESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 11.47 in the morning of January 6th, 1947, a message was received through the coastguard from the Trinity House superintendent, that a keeper aboard the...
R.A.F. Crest for a Life-Boat
THE Royal Air Force has presented a silver and enamel R.A.F. crest to the Lerwick life-boat and it has been fitted in the after-shelter. With it came a message from the officer commanding the No. 18 Group: "The crest is sent in...
Category: Articles
(Below) Clyde
(below) Clyde, 70-001, Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No 35): length overall 70ft; beam 18ft; draught 8ft 4in; displacement 85 tons; maximum speed, over 11 knots; range at full speed, 600 nautical miles. Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fortis
Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she...