LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tracy Jane
Workington, Cumberland - At 7.20 p.m. on 31st March, 1969, the coastguard reported that the cabin cruiser Tracy Jane, with one crew member on board, was in difficulties between Parton and Harrington. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX...
Life-boat Service in the War
The 3rd of September, 1939, to the 8th of May, 1945.
Category: Contents
Pomona
On the 10th February, at 7.30 A.M, the No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched to a steamer which had been in collision with another vessel and was proceeding southward. On arriving alongside, the master stated that he was not in need of...
Neco Marine Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Fremad
On the 11th January, news was received at this station that the services of the China life-boat were urgently needed in Torbay, as many vessels were in great danger of being wrecked during a strong gale of wind from the N.E. The China...
Striver
The trawler Striver, of Great Yarmouth, was being towed into the harbour by a steam-tug at about 8.45 on the morning of the 25th October, during a N.E. to N.N.E. wind, squally weather, and a heavy sea. When crossing the bar, the tug came...
Rescue By An Honorary Secretary
ON the afternoon of 1st July, in a southerly gale with a very heavy sea, a small yacht, with its owner on board, ran ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance to the channel. Councillor C. E. Tatham, Honorary Secretary of the Blackpool Branch...
Category: Articles
The Margate, Kent, 1Kb Assisting the M.F.V. Jaroma on 24Th August, 1969,
The Margate, Kent, 1KB assisting the m.f.v. Jaroma on 24th August, 1969, when she ran aground on a sand bank. Four men were taken off her and the service in which the Margate life-boat also took part is described on this. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alethea II
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of Harwich, was aground at the mouth of the River Aide. Her crew of three were able to walk ashore. Later she...
A Speed Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had been seen to capsize a mile north- west of Moelfre Island and that shouts for help could...