LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
June Rose
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — On the 21st of August, 1948, the motor fishing boat June Rose, of Castlebay, put to sea at 5.30 in the morning.
She had not returned by half past two in the afternoon and was...
Marie Emilie Andrea
.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th December a schooner in the Caldy Roads, which had been slowly dragging her anchors all the morning, got into a very dangerous position, and was seen to make signals of distress. The Life-boat William 'and...
Oban
While a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy rain at intervals, on the 27th October, the Coxswain of the Lifeboat and Officer of Coastguard on the look-out observed a light from a vesselstranded on the...
A Naval Aeroplane (1)
- Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.13 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard, that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
Kittiwake
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 6.50 in the evening, on the 31st of July, 1950, the Aberayron police telephoned that a motor boat from Aberayron was flying distress signals six miles north- east of New Quay. At 7.10 the life- boat St. Albans was...
A Grand Result
Keith Graham, Exmouth lifeboat coxswain, was at The Anchor public house in Oldbury on Severn on 3 July to receive a cheque for £1,000 which had been raised by pub regulars.
Keith accepted the cheque at a supper which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Energy
In the early morning of the 30th September the ketch Energy, of Gloucester, stranded on Bembridge Ledge, and some of the local fishermen went off to her in a large fishing-boat. On arriving at the vessel the captain stated that he would...
Ulster Queen
FEBRUARY 28TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 4.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the motor vessel Ulster Queen, of Belfast, with about 120 passengers and crew on board, had gone ashore at Maughold Head. A light, freshening,...
The Anastatia
DRIFTING TOWARDS THE ROCKS Wicklow.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of January 28th, 1947, the lighthouse keeper at Wicklow Head telephoned that a fishing boat was flying distress signals half a mile south-east of the Head. A strong...
The Queen Elizabeth In Sand
LAST September five boys made a sand model on the Southwold beach of the Queen Elizabeth, collected seven shillings from those who stopped to look at it and gave them to the Southwold branch of the Institution..
Category: Donations