LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contango, of Woodbridge
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8 p.m. on 13th May, 1967, the yacht Contango of Woodbridge was reported aground on the Newcombe sandbank and was flying a distress signal. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick was launched at 8.25 in a fresh north...
Cover Picture
by Frank Austin Penlee's Arun class Mabel Alice at speed during an exercise off the Cornish coast. The Tater-Dhu lighthouse is visible in the background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Skafe
CATAMARAN BEACHED AFTER CREW TAKEN OFF Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, members of the life-boat crew saw the catamaran Skafe capsize off Black Rock beach. At 1.40 the life-boat Robert Lindsay was...
Tsiropinas
— At 6.15 P.M. on the 30th April the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched to the assistance of a large steamer ashore on the Goodwin Sands. On arrival at the stranded vessel five Life-boatmen were placed on board the stranded...
Aerial
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At about 1.45 P.M. on the 20th August a small sailing yacht, with one man on board, was seen trying to make Staithes harbour.
A gale was blowing from the south-west.
After several...
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Excelsior
WITHERNSEA.—On the 23rd January, the fishing smack Excelsior, of Grimsby, stranded about 150 yards N. of Withernsea Pier, having mistaken the pier light for that of a vessel at anchor. She burnt large flare light as a signal of distress, in...
A Dutch Coaster
DECKS WERE AWASH At 4.47 p.m. on 24th September, 1964, a report was received via Cromer radio that a small Dutch coaster which had been in a collision was in danger of sinking in choppy seas and fresh south-southeasterly winds. Because of...
Guiding Light
Arklow, Co. Wicldow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals were seen three miles north of Arklow Harbour. Five minutes later the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched in a very rough sea with a...
A Model Probably Contemporary
A model, probably contemporary, of the lifeboat built by Thomas Costain which went on station at Formby in 1841. It can be seen in the National Maritime Museum. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of National Maritime Museum. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs