LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
Welfare
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 3.20 early on the morning of the llth of October, 1953, the police reported that the local motor fishing vessel Welfare, with a crew of two, had left Newhaven and ought to have reached Dunbar about six o'clock...
None
STUDENTS STRANDED STUDENTS stranded on Calf Island, four miles west south west of Port Erin, I.o.M., led to the Port Erin life-boat going to their assistance on 21st May.
The motor vessel, which took them to the island,...
Axel
COURTOWN.—It having been reported that a barque was flying signals of distress, the Life-boat Three Sisters put off at 8 A.M. on the 30th September, in strong N.E. breeze and a moderate sea.
On reaching the vessel, which...
Confiance
The motor Life-boat, James Stevens No. 14, was launched at 2.18 P.M. on the 6th Decem- ber to the assistance of a ketch which was reported in distress off Walton-on- the-Naze. When she arrived alongside she found the vessel was the Dutch...
Eleni
JANUARY 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the afternoon of the 20th January the Athlone Broadcasting Station asked listeners to inform the life-boat authorities that a vessel was in distress. She was the Greek steamer Eleni, of...
An Aircraft
SEPT . 7TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after 10 P.M. information was received that an aircraft had dived into the sea three miles N.E. of the North Carr Light-vessel. The life-boat found nothing, spoke the light-vessel, and learned...
Maggie Murray
At about 11.20 A.M. on the 1st January it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that a small ketch was at anchor close to Allonby Bay, and as the weather was squally, with every indication of a heavy gale approaching, she was kept under...
A Fishing Vessel
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.40 a.m. on 30th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small fishing vessel had fired red flares from a position half a mile east of the harbour. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at...
A Six-Year-Old Storm Force Member Stuart Tarvit of St.Monans Fife
A Six-year-old Storm Force member Stuart Tarvit, of St Monans, Fife, must be one of the voungest readers of THE LIFEBOAT. A very keen supporter of the RNLI (lifeboat posters adorn his bedroom walls), for his sixth birthday, instead of... - View image in PDF
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