LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Committee Members of Helston and Porthleven
Committee members of Helston and Porthleven branch Stan Llovd (bicvc/e) and Graham Fern (counter balance) are helping to improve the balance of their branch's account in this tigh! wire act across the entrance to Forth/even Harbour. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Mangalore
NOV. 24TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 9.5 A.M . a very loud explosion was heard in the direction of the Lower Middle Buoy. A vessel. apparently on fire, was seen, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was...
The S.S. Dundee
On the night of the 20th April the s.s. Dundee, of Dundee, bound, laden, from that port to London, stranded at the mouth of the River Tay, S. by E. of Horseshoe buoy. She carried twelve passengers, and a crew of twenty-two. Her master sent...
Lifeboat Provides Inflatable and First Aid In Team Effort for Fallen Climber
Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber to safety.
The lifeboat was on service on 14 May when the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cullercoats News
Although the Cullercoats, Northumberland, life-boat station has been closed, support for the life-boat service is as strong as ever it was. All local fund-raising events are to go on as usual, those for the rest of the year being a coffee...
Category: Articles
Rnli National Lottery
THE DRAW for the 29th national lottery on April 30, 1985 was made by Captain Philip Roberts DSO who was captain of RFA Sir Galahad when she came under attack during the Falklands conflict in 1982. Before returning to sea in May this year,...
Category: Articles
Montbretia
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported a mes- sage from the motor fishing vessel Montbretia, of Hull, asking for help as her engines had failed whilst on passage from...
Andradite
Barra Island, Hebrides.—At 3.30 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1957, a message was received from the Storno- way coastguard that the steam trawler Andradite, of Fleetwood, was ashore near Curachan Rock. The life-boat Lloyds put out at...
A Rowing Boat
Valentia, Co. Kerry. — At 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th of June, 1949, the Cahirciveen Civic Guard reported a rowing boat, with a broken oar and one adult and four children on board, drifting seawards off Kells. Twenty minutes...