LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosa
FISHING BOAT ON FIRE Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 18th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals and at 5.55 the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A strong west-south-west breeze was...
In Tow of the St. Mary's Life-Boat
This photograph won a first prize in the Institution's competition (See page 283). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chicken Rock Lighthouse and Port St. Mary Life-Boat
Chicken Rock Lighthouse and Port St Mary Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Device for Helicopter Rescues
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
Category: Articles
A Motor Launch
AUGUST 15TH. - WICKLOW. A motor launch had been reported overdue, but another motor boat went to her help.- Rewards, £9 2s. 3d..
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OCTOBER 27TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. Lights had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
William Porter
Aberdeen.—On the night of the 17th January three pilots went down-channel to change the lights marking the wreck of the trawler George Stroud. While they were at work the propeller of their cutter—William Porter—fouled the mooring-wire, and...
Doris and Colley
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.45 in the afternoon of the 1st of July, 1949, it was reported from the East Pier that a R.A.S.C. launch had broken down and was drifting towards the North Goodwin Lightvessel. The life-boat crew were assembled, but the...
A Boat (1)
BLOWN ON TO REEF Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 4.18 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the South Gare lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with a crew of two had been blown on to a slag reef about a quarter of...