LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ruby
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 2.15 in the afternoon on the llth of March, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was showing a distresssignal two miles east of Collieston. At 2.30 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
Thistle (1)
Cromer, Norfolk - At 9.34 a.m. on 22nd January, 1969, it was reported that the m.f.v. Thistle with a crew of three had broken down a mile and a half north east of the life-boat station. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 9.41...
Aguilla
Dover, Kent.—At 12.20 on the after- noon of the 1st of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had sprung a leak and needed help off the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 12.35. The...
The Owers Lightvessel
Selsey, Sussex. At 3.15 on the morn- ing of the 6th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a man had collapsed aboard the Owers lightvessel, and that the services of a doctor were required. At 3.40 the...
Tessa
Selsey, Sussex - At 7.54 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, a motor cruiser was seen burning distress flares about two miles off Middleton. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 8.7 in a calm sea with fog patches. It was four hours after...
Superb
HOLY ISLAND, NOBTHDMBERLAND.—The schooner Superb, of and from Timmernabben, Sweden, for Sunderland with a cargo of pit props, was seen beating up through the "Fairway," during a gale from the S.E., on the morning of the 31st of...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeremiah O'Connell, of Valentia, Co. Kerry,He has been coxswain since 1946..
Category: Articles
The Rev. V. Roy Brain Baptising Sally Jane Aboard the Seaham Life-Boat.
The Rev. V. Roy Brain baptising Sally Jane aboard the Seaham life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Reliance
CULLERCOATS.—On the 20th November the Reliance fishing-coble, which had gone out at 4 A.M. for the purpose either of piloting or fishing, was returning to the harbour at about 9.30, by which time the sea had much increased, and it was...
The Danish Vessel Dangulf Maersk
TWO INJURED MEN At 9.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that there were two injured men on board the Danish vessel Dangulf Maersk. At 9.35 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a light west-north-westerly...