LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keith Deller
Keith Deller, former world darts champion, assisted the Harwich lifeboat crew at the Hanover public house in counting the contents of a bottle amounting to a remarkable £1,360. The money had been raised by the landlord, Basil MacNess,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Isernia
STOKEHOLD ON FIRE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 4.59 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had received a mayday call from the British trawler hernia stating that her stokehold was on fire. The life...
Agatha
The steam trawler Agatha, of Grimsby, ran ashore on the beach outside Spurn Point at 9.15 P.M. on the 6th January. A moderate easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea. The Life-boat at once proceeded to the vessel which was found full of...
Raf Sea King Helicopter
RAF Sea King helicopter Photo. AE Turner. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vliestroom, Kalso and Karanan
MARCH 3 1 ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 5.55 P.M. a steamer was seen to be ashore at Trefusis Point Falmouth Harbour, and at 6.10 P.M. the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched. A southerly gale was...
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New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4.0 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1951, the police telephoned that a man had fallen down a cliff between Llan- granog and Penbryn Beach. The sea was too rough for a shore boat to put out, so the...
Kragero
BARMOUTH and PWLLHELI.—On the 2nd August the Life-boats Jones Gibb, stationed at Barmouth, and Margaret Plait stationed at Pwllheli, proceeded to the assistance of the barque Kragero, of Krageio, bound from Wilmington, South Carolina, for...
Fraserburgh
FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kingston Prison In Portsmouth
People passing by Kingston Prison in Portsmouth one day in April were amazed to see the prison doors swing open and hordes of oddly dressed 'convicts' flooding out. They were all competitors in the great charity jailbreak, organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Haweswater
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The Lifeboat John Robert was teunched at 12.30 P.M. on the 7ih April, the coxswain having observed from his house a barque apparently ashore on Crosafarnogue Point.
The vessel, which had grounded in...