LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Arbroath, Angus.—On the afternoon of the 28th of December, 1948, a south- westerly gale was blowing, and at 2.45 the coastguard telephoned that owing to the heavy seas the harbour entrance was dangerous. A number of fishing boats were out,...
James Wickham
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel James Wickham, which was taking a party to the U.S.S. Rhodes, had broken down and was flying...
Another Day... Another Service!
Another day... another service! Poole's Atlantic 75 was called out a couple of weeks before the events chronicled above, and while in the middle of her naming ceremony, when Poole's shallows and tidal streams caught out another yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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llth February.
Rockets reported at sea, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £7 6s. 6d..
A Small Rowing Boat
1st April. A small rowing boat was in difficulties, but was safely beached at Seaford.— Rewards, £5 16s..
(Top) Flat, Harbourside Land
(Topi Flat, harbourside land is at a premium in Fowey, but the site eventually acquired for the 1997-built building is ideal.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Airborne
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.37 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht two miles west-south-west of Clacton Pier appeared to need help, and at 3.45 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Bretonne
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 18th December, 1938, the French schooner Bretonne, of Treguier, was sheltering in Whitesand Bay from a S.E. gale.
She carried a crew of five and was bound with a cargo of coal from Cardiff to...
Vixen
On the 9th April the small steam-tug the Vixen, of Shields, was ob- served at anchor in a heavy sea from .E.N.E., with a flag of distress flying. The Cromer Lifeboat, the Benjamin Band Cabbett, was launched through a heavy surf to her...
The S.S. Arabian
BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 7th October the s.s. Arabian, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Gibraltar with a general cargo, went ashore about a mile and a half westward of the East Mouse, near Bull Bay, during a dense fog...