LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Fishing Yawls
telephonic message was received from the Coast- guard at Wick, stating that four fishing yawls were in distress in Wick Bay and making their way north. The sea j at the time was very heavy and the j weather was cold and hazy. ...
Fishing Boats
On the 4th March the Life-boat waslaunched at 10.30 A.M., and was out until 1 P.M., standing by the fishing fleet, as the boats arrived, in a strong breeze, a heavy sea and showers of snow..
George Casson
At about noon on the llth September a vessel was observed off Southwold with a considerable list, and a signal of distress in her rigging. As a N.N.E. gale was blowing with a heavy swell, and the crew could be seen working hard at the pumps,...
Food By Helicopter
Dropping supplies to the Wolfe Rock Lighthouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ross Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 8th of June, 1955, a man at Portmagee telephoned that the trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, had been due at Portmagee at eight o'clock the night before, but had not...
Ready to Set Out
On the right is Mr. Linton Thorp, K.C., on the left Mr. J W. B Hepper and Commander J. M.
Upton, R.D., R.N.R.; in the centre. Coxswain Dennis Price of Margate (with binoculars), and Mr. A. C. Robinson, the Margate honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eligug
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the police had passed on a message from Strumble Head that a boat was drifting in St. Bride's Bay. At 10.50 that...
A Life-Boat Worker for Sixty Years
The late Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling (See page 155). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (1)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 10.10 on the morning of the 15th of February, 1951, several local fishing boats were seen in difficulties making for North Sun- derland harbour in a heavy swell and a light easterly...
Geziena and Courage
Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of November, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor ship Geziena, of Rotterdam, was lying off Whitby in need of a pilot. As the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put out,...