LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Girvan - Mersey Class Silvia Burrell
Pictured (from left to right) are Archie MacKenzie, chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Lifeboat Council and member of the committee of management, second coxswain Stuart Moffat, Mrs Sue Stephen, His Grace the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Malianne
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 1.31 p.m' on 26th May, 1969, news was received that a yacht had capsized two miles off shore. At 1.57 the life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin was launched in a fresh south westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was...
Noorderkroon
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 12.45 P-m- on J4tn July, 1966, news was received, that the Dutch trawler Noorderkroon, of Scheveningen, had a mine on board. H.M.S. Belton had put ratings aboard to secure the mine. The honorary secretary...
Cloetta
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Cloetta, of Burnham-on- Crouch, was aground four and a quarter miles south-east of Clacton pier. A later message...
Craigievar
TRAWLER AGROUND At 8.35 a.m. on 8th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the trawler Craigievar of Aberdeen was aground at Red Head, Eday. At 8.55 the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings in...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their eighth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 3rd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.
As in previous years, they...
Category: Donations
A Boat
Three men were rescued on the 12th January in a strong southerly gale by the Life-boat Sarah Brooshfft, Kirk Ella, after having passed the night on a beacon on a rock upwards of three miles from the shore.
It appeared that...
The Edinburgh Lightvessel
Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...
The Fishery Protection Vessel Vaila
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the fishery protection vessel Vaila was ashore north of Craigmore, Isle of Lewis, and was making water. Shortly afterwards a message was...
An Aeroplane (73)
MAY 20TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At about 7.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea south of Ramsey Island, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 8.19 P.M. and...