LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Saxton
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.30 on the night of the 6th of December, 1948, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Saxton, of Middlesbrough, was aground outside the harbour entrance with her engines broken down, and the motor...
The Hoylake Motor Life-Boat
JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...
Manchester Merit
INJURED SEAMEN TAKEN OFF AN injured seaman aboard the container ship Manchester Merit led to the Appledore, Devon, life-boat being called to her at 6.51 p.m. on 9th January. At that time she was 40 miles south west of the Smalls...
Ann Elizabeth and Brigantine Commodore
The Ilfracombe life-boat also went off twice on the 19th October, and saved the sloop Ann Elizabeth, of Barnstaple, and the brigantine Commodore, of Waterford, and their crews, consisting of 8 men.
During a strong gale...
The Motor Fishing Coble Maggie
— Several motor fishing boats and cobles put out early on the 2nd November, but were caught in a strong N.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea. All except the motor fishing coble Our Maggie returned to harbour, and the motor life-boat Herbert...
Island
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.20 A.M.
on the 13th April the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on May Island. She was the steamer Island, of Copenhagen, bound, with about sixty-seven...
To Come Last In a Race and Still Earn £45724 for the Lifeboats
To come last in a race and still earn £457.24 for the lifeboats cannot be bad. This entrv in a charitv pram race held between 17 Hampsiead pub teams was dressed up to look (something) like a Waveney class lifeboat and although it came... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lassie
Arbroath, Angus. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of March, 1959, the fishing boat Bairns Pride left Arbroath to look for the fishing boat Lassie, which was overdue from the fishing grounds. At 9.50 she sent a radio message...
Two Motor Boats
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, two motor boats, one towing the other, left Whitby for Staithes in fine weather. There was a strong south- easterly wind, with a heavy swell and an ebb tide. At 8.15...
The Smaller of the Two Norwegian Boats Ragni Berg Stood By a Dutch Yacht In Trouble Off Esbjerg on Her Passage from Norway Photograph By Courtesy of Dag Pike
The smaller of the two Norwegian boats, Ragni Berg, stood by a Dutch yacht in trouble off Esbjerg on her passage from Norway. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs