LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 86, 88,91, the following launches for service were made during the months December, 1967 to February, 1968, inclusive: Aldeburgh...
Category: Services
A Boat
MONTROSE.—On the 30th September, a boat containing three pilots put off from this place to a Norwegian barque, and one of the men was placed on board the vessel.
The boat then returned towards the shore, but the wind having...
On Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Flag Day
On Great Yarmouth and Gorleston flag day.
July 15, Danny La Rue, then appearing in his summer show at Great Yarmouth, came to the market place lifeboat stall and signed photographs of himself, which he donated, and also... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seahawk
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 4.31 in the afternoon of the 6th of August, 1949, the day on which the County Borough Centenary Celebra- tions opened, the South Shields police reported that a sailing yacht had cap- sized off the Trow Rocks,...
Blink
No. 2 Life-boat Area Troon, Ayrshire - At 10.45 p.m. on 13th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Great Cumbrae at Ballochmartin bay. The life-boat Connel Elizabeth Cargill slipped her...
Beaver
HUSBAND SURVIVED At 8.45 a.m. on 19th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser anchored half a mile offshore, two miles north of Ardrossan, had run out of fuel and appeared to have lost a rudder. No other...
An Aeroplane (32)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that anaeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The aeroplane...
Actuality
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On Friday the 3rd of February, 1950, the motor vessel Actuality of London, on passage from Drogheda to Sunderland, entered Peterhead Bay to shelter from bad weather. Being short of food, she sent a boat ashore in...
The S.S. Zeester
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.35 A.M. on the 12th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel was firing guns and flying signals indicating that a vessel was in...
Silver Queen
LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Torbay, Devon. At 5.4 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police at Torbay that a boat near Thatcher rock needed help. The...