LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
Annie
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—A signal of distress was shown by the schooner Annie, of Lancaster, which was about three miles E.N.E. of the harbour and drifting ashore, in a moderate gale from S.S.E., thick weather and a rough sea, on the 17th April....
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.2 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1949, the Seahouses coastguard reported a man on a fishing boat wav- ing a flag, and at 10.15 the life-boat W.R.A. was launched, manned by her coxswain-and a...
Fortune II
YACHT RESCUED At 6.10 p.m. on i2th June, 1965, the motor yacht Fortune II was observed flying a distress signal. Her position was three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the harbour. There were light variable airs with a smooth sea and...
Sirius
Seaham, Co. Durham - At 8.1 p.m.
on 26th July, 1966, a yacht about one mile offshore, to the north of Seaham, was seen to be making heavy weather. The Sunderland IRB was requested to investigate.
As the...
Aloma
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Campbeltown, Argyllshire; and Donaghadee, Co. Down.
—On the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a man, together with his wife and two sons, were cruising off the coast of County Antrim in the...
A Dinghy (3)
SAILING DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH Girvan, Ayrshire. At 6.30 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, a member of the Girvan yacht club informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy with two young men on board was overdue from a...
John Julius Angerstein
1735-1823: Chairman of Lloyd's.
(From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.: reproduced by Sir Emery Walker.).
Category: Drawings
Persevere
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the motor barge Persevere, of Rochester, which had a crew of two, had brokendown and sprung a leak and had been taken in tow by a motor...
Taygrove
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 7.50 on the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht appeared to need help one and a half miles north-east-by- east of Peterhead, and five minutes later stated that she...