LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maria
On the morn- ing of the 7th December, during a strong gale, a vessel was observed about twelve miles off Sidmouth flying signals of distress. The Life-boat William and Francis was launched at 9.30 A.M., and reached the vessel at 11.30. She...
Alba
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 12.33 early on the morning of the 13th of September, 1955, the Formby coast- guard telephoned that the M.V. Alba, of Genoa, which had broken down on the 12th and had been towed by a tug to a position...
Lifeboat Services (From Page 46)
Lifeboat Services (from page 46) cruiser, carrying a crew of two, on passage from Christchurch to Torquay.
Her position at the time of interception was 7 nautical miles south east by south of the station on a bearing of...
Category: Services
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A Fishing Coble
CULLERCOATS.—On the 2nd December the Life-boat Palrnerston, stationed here, was the means of saving 1 man of the crew of a fishing coble which was upset in running for the shore. Three others unfortunately perished before the arrival of the...
Breeches Buoy Exercise With Polish Fishing Boat
The life-boat is the Arbroath boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Baptism by mire
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA | 3 NOVEMBER
Southend’s search and rescue hovercraft crew launched to reports of five people in the water struggling to get ashore. The volunteers quickly located three of them –...
Category: Articles
Amber Queen
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 12.5 early on the morning of the 14th of Decem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were being fired from a vessel near Fersness Point, Isle of Eday. The life-boat The John Gellatly...
A Boat Fairy Queen
During a strong south-easterly gale on the 10th August, the pilots at this place observed a boat, about eight miles to the N.E., with a signal at her mast-head. The Christopher Brown Life-boat proceeded to it, but found that the boat was...