LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sorel, of Denmark
Lerwick, Shetland - At 9.46 p.m on 9th March, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported nearly ashore in the south harbour.
At 10.10 the life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth proceeded in a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The C.R.E...
Kantara
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.5 a.m. on 6th September, 1968, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in Bowleaze cove. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke was launched. It was low water. She came up with the cabin...
Empress
Workington, Cumberland - At midnight on 2nd December, 1968, the coxswain reported that a fishing boat was overdue. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her moorings at 12.20 in a moderate easterly wind with a smooth sea. The...
Tricia
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 3.45 p.m. on 6th June, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been received from a boat two miles north west of Barmouth. At 4.3 the lifeboat The Chieftain was launched. The...
Argus
Dover, Kent - At 7.10 p.m. on 5th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties and drifting towards the Goodwin sands. At 7.22 the life-boat Faithful Forester was launched. It was three hours...
The Small Motor Fishing Boat Scot
FEBRUARY 17TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
The small motor fishing boat Scot, with a crew of four, left Stornoway to fish in the morning, and anxiety was felt when darkness came on and she had not returned. A southerly gale was...
A Life-Boat Hero
THE death at Lytham of Thomas Clarkson, the late Coxswain of the Lytham Life-boat, at the ripe age of eighty-three, recalls one of the most terrible Life-boat disasters which has ever befallen the Institution. On December 6th, 1886, the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Gairsoppa
MARCH 1ST. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
The S.S. Gairsoppa, of Glasgow, 5,000 tons, with a crew of thirty, had been torpedoed and had sunk. At 10.30 A.M. the life-boat motor-mechanic saw a small boat with survivors on board. A...
A Steamer (1)
27th Octo- ber. A steamer had foundered, but a trawler rescued the crew. The life- boat, which had been launched at 1.45 P.M., put into Drummore at 10 P.M., and returned to her station next morn- ing.—Rewards, £25 18*..
Malcolm Carefully Approaches Araxian As Niell Is Helped Over the Guardrails and Onto the Casualty
Malcolm Carefully Approaches Araxian As Niell Is Helped Over The Guardrails And Onto The Casualty. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs