LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fiola
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 9.47 a.m.
on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the life-boat that the cabin cruiser Fiola of Glasgow, with a crew of three, was aground on Belhaven Sands. The owner of the...
Marie Annie
During the afternoon of the llth April, the brigan- tine Mary Annie, of Folkestone, stranded on the sands to the westward of the Cockle Light-vessel, and a yawl put off to her assistance. On reaching the vessel the men in the yawl found that...
Bound In Boards Cut from the Oak Knees Used for the Stems of Lifeboats
. . Bound in boards cut from the oak knees used for the stems of lifeboats,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Inset 1990) Has the Cut-Away Topsides and Standard Wheelhouse of the Later Boats
While The Final Boat Duke of Atholl (inset, 1990) has the cut-away topsides and standard wheelhouse of the later boats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Agnes and Betsy
At 2.15 P.M on the 17th January the coastguard tele- E honed to the coxswain that the small shing boat Agnes and Betsy had not returned from the fishing grounds. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor...
The Scottish Drifter Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.29 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that an urgent call for help had been received from the Scottish drifter Sunbeam. She had an injured man on board, who was...
Bird of Freedom
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 16th October a fishing boat was observed to be on the Mole Rocks to the eastward of the breakwater ; at the time it was blowing a moderate gale from S.E.
with a rough sea. Without...
Edwellis
Hastings, Sussex.—At 2.3 on the after- noon of the 4th of August, 1953, the Fairlight coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat was flying a flag, which appeared to be a distress signal, three quarters of a mile off...
Rose Crest
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 6.40 p.m. on 15th April, 1968, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Rose Crest was in difficulties with engine trouble south of...
Mary and Ann
SOOTHPOBT, liAHCASHIBE. While the wind was blowing half a gale from the W., on the morning of the 14th May, the schooner Mary and Ann, of Bundalk, bound from Annalong, Co. Down, to (Jarston, with a cargo of stone, was observed to be In the...