LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Faith Star
Whitby, Yorkshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1957, the crew of the fishing boat Faith Star reported on their return from fishing that the sea was breaking on the bar and that conditions were becoming...
Ina
Tyn_e tows coaster and crew to safety in worsening weather When the 210ft coaster Ina lost power off the Devon coast on 4 November 1997 she soon found herself aground by the stern on the Mewstone, just off Bolt Head. With a south-easterly...
H.M. Motor Launch No. 323
Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1954, information reached the life-boathouse that H.M. motor launch No. 323, a survey vessel, had gone aground on the Barber Sands. At 12.19 the Great Yarmouth coastguard...
New Food for Life-Boats
All life-boats carry chocolate, biscuits and rum, as emergency rations. The life-boats with cabins, which may have long distances to travel, also carry corned-beef.
To their rations have now been added coeoa-milk and oxtail...
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Galway Bay, Co. Gal way.— On the morning of the 15th February there was an urgent request for a doctor to be fetched from the mainland. The only hj»at available was "the motor life-boat William Evans, and she made the trip, setting...
Neptunia
Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.
The Thurso life-boat was also...
Tjoba
DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL ESCORTED IN GALE Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.55 on the morning of the 13th January, 1962, the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) had just returned to her station from investigating a report of a white...
Seven Lifeboatmen from Newhaven Sheerness and Portsmouth
Seven lifeboatmen from Newhaven, Sheerness and Portsmouth, attended the Annual National Service for Seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 17. Coxswain/ Mechanic Leonard Patten of Newhaven lifeboat, was the RNLI colour bearer,... - View image in PDF
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Thistle
CULLERCOATS. — The Life-boat Co- Operator No. 1 was launched to the assistance of the coble Thistle which was in danger while returning from the fishing grounds in a moderate wind from E. by N. and a rough sea, on the morning of the 3rd...
A Catamaran
Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.55 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1961,during an exercise launch of the life-boat James and Barbara Ait ken it was noticed that a catamaran had lost its sails and was in difficulties, with a crew of two, three-...