LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Darling, from Beaumaris
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 28th January, at 1.30 P.M., a signal from the Crosby Lightship gave warning that a vessel in distress near Tailor's Bank required the aid of a Life-boat. The tubular Life-boat was thereupon manned, and proceeded in...
The S.S. P.L.M. 17
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 1.8 in the morning of the 14th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be aground on the New- combe Sands. Her signals by lamp could not be read, so the life-boat Michael Stephens was...
Scimitar
DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with...
Callum Cille
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1954, the Kilchomaii coastguard re- ported that the fishing boat Callum Cille, of Oban, which had a crew of three, had run on a reef off the north shore of Loch Tarbert...
RNLI lottery and Mini draw
DAVID WEBB, the Bournemouth Cherries football team player/coach and former centre-half for Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester and Derby football clubs, drew the RNLI's tenth national lottery at Poole HQ on...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Irwell
At 4.35 A.M. on the 30th November information was received that a Government trans- port vessel—the s.s. In/cell, of Goole —with twenty men on board, had struck the bar and was driving ashore into Seaford Bay. The Motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy...
The 52Ft Barnett Lifeboat Archibald and Alexander M Paterson
The 52ft Barnett lifeboat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson, which has been on station at Stromness since 1955, launching down her slipway. Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson was the gift of Miss Margaret M. Paterson of St Petersburg,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat
On the return of a fishing-boat from the Broadsea fishing-ground on the 3rd August the crew reported that they had not seen anything of the Klondyke, another fishing-boat of Port Patrick, which had two men on board. As there was a rough sea...
Gold Crown
The motor life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8 P.M. on the 20th November, as the Cromer coastguard had reported that a vessel had run ashore at East Runton, and was burning distress signals. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Vanadit
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. — About 7.30 on the morning of the 23rd February a vessel was observed in distress on the east side of Sunderland Bank, Morecambe Bay. A strong W.S.W. gale was blowing, which steadily increased, accompanied by a very...