LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dolphin
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 7.58 on the evening of the 26th of July, 1955, the coxswain was told that a cabin cruiser was close under Porth- dinllaen Point, and that her crew were waving frantically. Twelve minutes later the...
Folly Funds
For the last 12 years visitors to The Folly Inn on the banks of the River Medina on the Isle of Wight have been accosted by charming lady rattling her lifeboat collecting box! Twice a day, during flag week, Anne Burdett makes the ten minute... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Psyche, of Swansea
REDCAR.—On the 25th September at 10 • 30P.M., the schooner Psyche of Swansea went ashore on the rocks off Kedcar, and the Life-boat Burton-on-Trent was launched to her assistance. Hear-Admiral KOBERTSON, Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats to...
Deeside
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 5.35 a.m.
on 17th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sick man aboard the m.f.v. Deeside required hospital treatment. The lifeboat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was...
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Mary and Martha
While a strong gale was blowing from the S., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the night of the 5th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Mary and Martha, bound from Queensferry for Dundalk, laden with bricks, which had...
Catherine of Newry
On the 19th February the services of the Fleetwood life-boat were again called into requisition. A vessel with a flag of distress flying, was observed to be on shore; the wind blowing a gale from N.N.W. at the time, with heavy squalls. The...
Longship and Life-Boat
This copy of a Viking ship, the Hugin, came from Denmark to Broadstairs at the beginning of the summer to commemorate the landing of Hengist and Horsa. She was taken over by the Daily Mail, and on her visits to other towns made collections... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pearl
The motor Life-boat General Farrell was launched on the 5th August in response to a telephone message from the Smalls Lighthouse, stating that the crew of the schooner Pearl were taking refuge in the Lighthouse, and wanted to be landed. The...
Gina
Barrow, Lancashire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 1 Oth of September.
1959, the police informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Gina of Barrow with a crew of five, which had been at sea fishing the previous...