LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Joass
YACHTS IN DISTRESS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morning of the 8th of June, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported a yacht ashore on the Spile Sands, and the motor life-boat Milburn, on tempor- ary duty at the station, was...
The S.S. Sodality
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 6.0 on the evening of the 17th of March, 1951, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that the S.S. Sodality, of London, four and a half miles north east of Barrow Deep, had a sick man on board. She...
The S.S. Ellesmere
At about 5.30 P.M. on the 27th September the Coastguard reported that a vessel close to the Runnel Stone rocks was flying signals for medical assistance and for a pilot. The weather was rough and threatening, with an E.S.E. gale blow- ing,...
A Motor Boat
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 11.15 p.m.
on 23rd October, 1966, information was received that a small motor boat last seen two miles east of Port Ellen during the afternoon had not yet returned to her moorings. At 11.35 the...
Wimpie and the Barges Glenrosa, Maid of Munster and Audrey (1)
Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), rescued two men from the yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and three men from the barge...
The Motor Boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and Enfilade
Newhaven, Sussex.—On the 6th of May, 1955, the motor boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and En- filade put out from Dover to take a salvage party to the S.S. Germania, of Piraeus, which had run ashore to the east of Beachy Head on the...
Cover Picture
Oban's new lifeboat, the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station, was named Ann Ritchie on May 7 (see page 229). The Brede has been developed from a commercial GRP hull produced by Lochin Marine of Rye and she takes her place among... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dixy Porr
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 1.30 on the -afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was stranded near the Shiant Isles. The life-boat James and Margaret Boyd put out at 1.50 in a calm...
Athenian
At 11.45 A.M.
on 12th May the Honorary Secretary received a telephone message from the Coastguard at Kirkwall that a trawler was ashore on Skea Skerries, Westray Firth, and that the skipper was still on board. As there was...
Helen Craig, of Belfast
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At about 4 P.M. on the 6th December a message was received that a steamer was in distress on the south side of the Ribble channel. She was the Helen Craig, of Belfast, bound for Preston, with a crew of...