LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (1)
SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was...
Bronze Medal for Norfolk Second Coxswain
AT half past nine on the evening of Saturday the 18th May, 1963, the Wells coastguard told the honorary secretary, Dr. E. W. Hicks, that a cabin cruiser was aground at the entrance to Blake- ney harbour.
The life-boat Cecil...
Category: Services
A Fishing Vessel
First aid skills commended The first aid skills of Portpatrick lifeboat crew, honed on a recent first-aid course, were commended by a doctor who subsequently treated a casualty they had taken off a fishing vessel. The chief of operations...
Shrimp
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—A party of four Liverpool yachtsmen were rescued from a dangerous position on the 3rd April. They set out the night before in the yacht Shrimp, but had not proceeded far when they encountered a severe westerly gale,...
Firing a Line During Exercise In Dun Laoghaire Harbour
Firing A Line During Exercise In Dun Laoghaire Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Suomi
BROADSTAIRS.—A message by telephone was received from the North Sand Head Light-vessel on the 27th May, reporting a vessel ashore on the Goodwin Sands.
A moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., there was a heavy...
Laidaure
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 19th of January, 1954, the Portpatrick radio station telephoned a local doctor that the motor vessel Laidaure, of Stockholm, a vessel of 6,000 tons, was making for Campbeltown with an...
Loch Fada and the L.C.T. Stalker
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — On the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1951, the Southend coastguard reported a message received from the naval authorities that the frigate Loch Fada, towing the L.C.T. Stalker, south-east of Sanda, found...
Savourna
During the local regatta which was held on the the 29th July, the S.W. wind freshened to a moderate gale and the sea became rough and heavy. Several of the com- peting boats found the seas too much and had to retire. The yacht Savourna, when...
Quiet Waters
REFLOATED Anstruther, Fife. At 5.3 p.m. on ist April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Quiet Waters was ashore off Pittenweem harbour entrance. The lifeboat James and Ruby Jackson was...