LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...
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APRIL 2ND. - PORT ASKAIG. HEBRIDES.
Shortly after mid-day a request was received from a county council official for the use of the Port Askaig life-boat, on Islay, to go to Colonsay and bring to Islay a mental patient, from...
Caught in a loch
10 November 2012: When a fundraising swimmer’s support boat broke down on Loch Ness and began to drift onto the rocky shores, the skipper wasted no time in calling for help. The volunteer crew from Loch Ness were...
Category: Articles
Northern Star
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 12.30 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, the coxswain, knowing that there was a fishing coble at sea and realizing that the weather was getting worse, had investigated and had decided to launch the life-boat Friendly...
Sunk By Enemy Action
The British oil tanker " Magdapur " broken in two off A'deburgh on 10th September The photograph was taken by the motor mechanic of the life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sheringham - East Division
Sheringham's long straight and exposed coastline can be seen stretching away to the east in the main photo on the left, with the boathouse and slipway for the station's Atlantic 75 visible on the foreshore - tucked under the cliffs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (1)
BridUngton, Yorkshire.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 27th of November, 1953, during bad weather, the coast- guard assembled the coastguard shore life-saving team to man the piers in case any fishing boat entering the harbour needed help....
Henry Blogg of Cromer
Trader went aground off Cromer in October 1941. Henry Blogg was then aged 65. His lifeboat H. F. Bailey put out in a full gale blowing from the north-north-east. When he approached English Trader, Blogg was confronted with what he considered...
Category: Articles
Dorileen
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— The motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 10.25 P.M. on the 28th August, as information had been received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Goswick Sands.
Rain was...
Four Cobles
Four cobles of Spittal and Berwick went out during the forenoon on the 6th April to recover their gear, which they had been obliged to abandon three days previously owing to heavy winds. They proceeded to Goswick Bay, and had hardly...