LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ladies' Life-Boat Guild: New Appointments
New Appointments.
THE Viscountess Bertie of Tliame, who has been Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1925, has resigned, owing to the fact that she is now living...
Category: Articles
Picturesque Postcard
Readers may be interested in this postcard photograph of Douglas lifeboat. It is one of several that came into the possession of my wife, Manx by birth, from her immediate family.
Although the lifeboat pictures are not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prince Llewellyn
WORTHING. — The schooner Prince Llewellyn, laden with slate from Portmadoc for Shoreham, stranded about two miles E. of Worthing pier at 2 P.M., on the 20th February, in a strong E.S.E.
breeze, a rough sea and thick weather...
Endeavour III
PROPELLER TROUBLE Caister, Norfolk. At 8.50 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the police told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was flying distress signals off Caister. The life-boat motor mechanic, who was in the boat-house, confirmed...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 12.8 p.m.
on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles off Porthbear Beach. There was a gale from the northwest with a rough sea. It was one...
Duclair
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 on the morning of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress signals had been fired from a yacht between Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
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JANUARY 30TH. - FLAMBOROUGH; YORKSHIRE. At about 12.45 P.M. the coastguard asked that the life-boat should be launched to search the steamship channel between Flamborough Head and Filey Brigg, as firing or explosions had been heard. An E.S.E...
Gorsethorn
DECEMBER 6-7TH. - NEW BRIGH-TON, CHESHIRE. Shortly after five in the evening a message was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board that the Liverpool steamer Gorsethorn had sent an SOS that she was disabled fifteen miles N.W. by W....
Weston-Super-Mare:
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
La Voyageuse
Torbay, Devon - At 3.33 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor cruiser had gone aground on the rocks south of Mansands. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 6.45 to...