LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Sick Girl THE DOCTOR at Armadale asked Mallaig honorary secretary at 1400 on Friday, March 21, if the lifeboat would take a sick girl from Sleat Point to Armadale Pier. The 52' Barnett lifeboat EMM.
Gordon Cubbin...
Fishing Cobles (1)
The No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden performed a useful service on the 1st May, in escort- ing six of the fishing cobles, one at a time, into safety. In the early morning when the boats put to sea the weather was fine with a slight swell, but...
Felicity and Victory
— The Motor Life-boat Stanhope Smart, which had gone to the Station in June, was called out, in a moderate southerly gale with a rough sea, and rain, at 11.40 A.M.
on the 3rd November, as the fishing boats Felicity and...
Top Filler
Richard Hill (left), a regular at the Manor House Inn in Ditcheat, Somerset, is an enthusiastic RNLI supporter - with his powers of persuasion he manages to maintain a constant flow of donations from friends and other... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spray
Lengthy search but no survivors It is an unfortunate fact that some lifeboat services do not result in the rescue of survivors, a result which inevitably has an effect on the lifeboat crews but which does not affect their dedication to the...
St Michael
On the 25th July, during a strong S.S.W. gale, the French brig, St. Michel, ran on the Holm Sand, and the sea at once broke heavily over her. Being seen from Lowestoft, the life-boat at that place was quickly launched, and taking off the...
A Fishing Coble
CREW TAKEN OFF FISHING COBLE Seaham, Co. Durham. At 8.11 on the morning of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen two and a half miles north of Seaham. The life-boat George Elmy was launched...
St. Joseph
Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...
Fishing Boats (2)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 10.10 on the morning of the 15th of February, 1951, several local fishing boats were seen in difficulties making for North Sun- derland harbour in a heavy swell and a light easterly...
Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of Decem- ber, 1959, it was decided to launch the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth to stand by while five local fishing vessels re- turned to harbour in very bad weather.