LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1950, two men from a Shipbreaking Company were inspecting a wreck in Campbeltowii Loch. While they were aboard, a sudden gale sprang up from the south, with torrential...
Vaderland
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 8.0 on the night of the 10th of January, 1951, a ship was seen to enter Dun- garvan Harbour, ivn in on the wrong side of the sand bar and burn flares.
At 8.40 the life-boat Agnes Cross, on...
St. Philip
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—About 4.0 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1951, the skipper of the steam trawler St. Philip, of Fleetwood, asked for help to refloat his ship, which had run on the rocks west of Castlebay pier. At 4.15 the...
Maid of Honour
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the night of the 30th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a local resident had reported a wireless message from the motor fishing vessel Maid of Honour, of Lerwick. She had broken down off Brethren...
A Canoe (1)
the morn- ing of the 14th September a young visitor to Saundersfoot put out in a canoe. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. About half a mile off shore the canoe capsized, and was blown another mile out to sea with the boy...
Spray
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.55 P.M. on the 25th October the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), which had just returned from the service already described, was warned that a yacht was ashore on Nore Sands, She put off...
Fishing Boats
Girvan, Ayrshire.-—-On the morning of 8th March, 1939, a strong W.N.W.
wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the fresh water from the flooded river Girvan was making the harbour bar extremely dangerous. Five fishing boats...
Olive
Torbay, Devonshire.—On the 27th October, 1939, it was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F. aeroplane, en- gaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten miles north-east...
Cover Picture
Coxswain Robert McMullan, of Portrush, Co. Antrim, a professional fisherman, was appointed Second Coxswain in 1940 and Coxswain in 1964. His life-boat is the Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4), a 46 foot 9 inch Watson, which was built in 1949.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crean
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to say that a woman had reported that a black-painted yacht was dragging her anchor off Helford River. The life- boat Crawford and...