LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Das Wappen von Bremen
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the crew of seven of the German yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, were rescued by the life-boat.—Rewards: Vellum and monetary awards amounting to £20 10*. 2d., together with a letter to the Board...
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat told the second coxswain that the weather had made conditions on the outer harbour bar verv dangerous and that the local fishing boat...
Buckingham (1)
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...
C.A.V. Ltd
Chosen for reliability LUCAS The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
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Category: Advertisement
Yacht Mar-g-habi
Margate, Kent.—At about 4.30 P.M.
on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht was ashore on the north part of Margate Sands.
The weather was squally, with a southerly wind and a rough...
Betsy Nora
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.49 on the even- ing of the llth of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen coming from a motor boat a quarter of a mile east of Great Rock. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
Gundine
LIFE-BOATS SMOTHERED IN OIL Stromnest, and Longbope, Orkneys.— At 7.34 in the morning of the 24th of August, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to the Stromness life-boat station that the Norwegian tanker Gundine, of Arendal, was...
Robbie
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 11.15 p.m.
on 4th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen in the Straits off Beaumaris. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at...
A Vampire Aircraft
Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...
Cover Picture
This animated photograph of the Flamborough, Yorkshire, life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise was taken by Mr. Arthur W. Dick, honorary secretary, Bridlington, in a westerly gale early in April An Inspector of Life-boats was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs