LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tempo
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.13 P.M. on the 13th September, 1938, the coastguard reported having received a message from the Brake Light-vessel that a motor vessel was aground half a mile east of North Goodwin Buoy. A gentle breeze was blowing and...
Ballylesson
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.25 a.m.
on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a collision had occurred off Pluckington Bank buoy and that a coaster was sinking. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went out at...
Criani and Wilhelimina
At 2.8 a.m. on 21st September, 1969, it was learnt that flares had been sighted off Seaford. At 2.28 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat came up with the motor boat Tuna with one man...
The S.S. Rivelin
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.5 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was dragging her anchors across the bay towards Salt Island. A watch was kept on her, and at about 1.30 A.M. she was seen burning a flare. A...
Four Girls
YACHT'S CREW SEE FLARES FROM FISHING BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported west of White Nothe, Ringstead...
A Motor Boat
Falmouth, Cornwall. On the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1959, the police at Falmouth informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had lost her rudder and had struck a rock near Rosemullion Point. The life-boat Crawford and Constance...
John, of Runcorn
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—-About dark on the evening of the 29th April the schooner John, of Runcorn, bound from Penmaenmawr to Dublin, was observed in a dangerous position in Moelfre Bay, during a strong gale from the...
Rig Supply Vessel Sinks After Collision
Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II is pictured standing by the rig supply vessel Si Mark shortly before she sank on 6 August 1990.
The lifeboat had been launched at 1620 following a Mayday call from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
MOTOR BROKE DOWN At 4 p.m. on 2yth October, 1965, the coxswain reported that three men in a small boat were in difficulties with their outboard motor broken down, near the Brazil buoy in the river Mersey. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went...
Helios
JUNE 26TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 3.25 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore on Swadman Reef. The weather was fine, with a light S.E. wind, and the sea was smooth. The motor...