LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
B.S. Callings, Premier, and Hilda
JANUARY 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The fishing cobles B. S. Callings, Premier, and Hilda were at sea. A north-easterly wind was blowing, and by the afternoon a heavy ground swell was breaking across the bay. At 2.55 the motor life-boat...
Kindly Light
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 11.50 on the morning of the 28th of January, 1960, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that the local fishing boat Kindly Light was overdue from fishing and might be in...
Garson
The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was also launched at 1 A.M. on the 18th November in reply to large flares which, bad been observed in the direction, of the North Scroby Sand, when the barge Qm-son, of Wisbeaeli, was discovered riding at...
Mercantile Credit
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Category: Advertisement
Margaret and Manx Heather (1)
JUNE 24TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.50 in the evening a message came to Douglas that the motor boat Margaret was in distress in the direction of Laxey, and at 8 P.M. the motor life-boat Manchester and Salford was launched. A...
Capricornus
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 A.M.
on the 7th August, 1938, it was reported from Easington, through the Humber Signal Station, that a vessel was ashore at Dimlington Heights.
A moderate northerly breeze...
Blue Bell
CLOVELLY, NORTH DEVON.—The ketch Blue Bell, of Padstow, lying at anchor off Clovelly'on the 26th March, at 11 A.
showed a signal of distress. A fresh gale from the N. was blowing at the time, and there was a heavy sea....
Eligug
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the police had passed on a message from Strumble Head that a boat was drifting in St. Bride's Bay. At 10.50 that...
Three Aeroplanes
JULY 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. Information had been received that three aeroplanes had fallen into the sea. Many the men were away fishing, but a crewwas obtained, and with the help of women the life-boat was launched. At the time an attack...
So Much to Choose From. Visitors to Eastbourne's Lifeboat Museum Ponder on Their Next Purchase
So much to choose from. - View image in PDF
Visitors to Eastbourne's lifeboat museum ponder on their next purchase. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs