LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Jet Aircraft
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 on the night of the llth of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that two jet aircraft had collided and crashed into the sea at a position four miles north- west, thence twenty miles north-east by north. The...
Jaymac
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.7 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1951, the Lade coastguard reported the motor yacht Jaymac, of London, in need of help six miles south-west of Dunge- ness. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...
Salvia
Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.50 in the evening of the 13th of November, 1948, a message was received from Whitehaven that a fishing vessel which had put out from there had not re- turned, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched...
Jane Isabella
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Robert and Susan Life-boat was launched on the 30th of June to the assistance of the coble Jane Isabella, which had gone to the fishing ground with four other boats and had been overtaken by a gale from the E...
St. Olaf
Llanddulas, NORTH WALES,—On the same morning (14th May), the brigantine St. Olaf, of and from Mandal, Norway, laden with pit-props, for Connah's Quay, near Chester, capsized when about three miles out at sea, off Llanddulas, and her crew...
Cover Picture
Senneris Cove 37ft 6m Rather lifeboat Diana White launched in a strong and squally north-north-westerly gale and very rough seas on February 6, 1983, to go to the help of the Irish passenger ferry St Killian II which had lost all power and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Perseus
ABANDONED SHIP Walmer, Kent. At 11.45 p.m. on 5th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Perseus of Bremen had radioed that she was on fire and that the crew were abandoning ship about 15 miles...
LIFEBOAT LAUNCHES
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Category: Articles
Christine Elisabeth
HARWICH.—At about 10 A.M. on the 13th November the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out and proceeded with the Reserve No. 3 Lifeboat in tow to the upper part of the Long Sand, where the three-masted schooner Christine...
A Trawler (2)
MCH. 6TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
A trawler was in distress and her crew had landed on the uninhabited island of Hascosay, but they were taken off by another trawler.- Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..