LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Ketch St. Michael
Exmouth, Devonshire.—On the morning of the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that the Lyme Regis harbour- master had reported a vessel apparently adrift from her moorings.
He later reported that she had anchored off...
Broughty Ferry Life-Boat With the New Aith Life-Boat
Broughty Ferry Life-Boat With The New Aith Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Cruiser
Lowestoft: On Monday May 14, 1984, a 17ft motor cruiser, with one man on board, suffered engine failure off Pakefield Beach; she was driven ashore and on to a groyne by the fresh north-easterly breeze. Reaching the cruiser at 1744,...
Shantico (2)
Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.
Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...
Left: the Ladies of Haywards Heath at the Dickens Evening
Left: The ladies of Haywards Heath at the Dickens evening.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Edith Owen
CEMLYN AND CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—On the 27th January, the s.s. Edith Owen, of London, bound from Bristol to Liverpool with a general cargo, struck on the Coal Kock, off the coast of Anglesey, during foggy weather, the wind blowing moderately...
Spurn Head Lifeboat Station By Christopher R Elliott
WHEN i WORKED for a weekly newspaper in the late 1940s on the Grimsby/ Cleethorpes side of the Humber I used to dream of visiting Spurn Head on the Yorkshire side. Certainly, when viewed through one of the telescopes on the front on a clear...
Category: Articles
Death of Life-Boatman
WHEN an explosion wrecked their fishing boat off the South Devon coast on I5th June, 1967, one of the two men lost was Mr. Francois L. Janssens, of Brixham, who was a regular crew member of the Torbay life-boat. His father, Mr. Albert...
Category: Obituaries
The Harwich Ketch "Mystery" Wrecked at Dover
The Harwich Ketch "Mystery" Wrecked at Dover. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs