LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dolly Graham
SINKING LONG-SHORE BOAT TOWED INTO DOCK Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.46 on the morning of Monday the 29th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted three miles east-by-north of the lookout....
Dianne
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 8.10 p.m.
on 12th October, 1966, the Scarborough lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in a dangerous position off the South bay. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...
A Dinghy (4)
Bangor, Co. Down; At 8.51 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Craigavad. At 8.57 the IRB launched in a strong, gusting to gale force...
Hille Oldendorff
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 11.20 a.m. on 30th March, 1966, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Hille Oldendorff, of Lubeck, which was about nine miles north west of the Longships lighthouse,...
North Sunderland Lifeboat
North Sunderland lifeboat crew look on while Jane Sutherland, grand-daughter of Lady Sutherland, president of the ladies' guild, presents a salmon to Bill Steel of Tyne Tees Television who opened the annual lifeboat fete at Seahouses.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Auxiliary Yacht, Zarefa, of Brixham
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 1.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting towards North Stack. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
Two Aeroplanes
MAY 24TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.40 P.M. the senior naval officer reported that two aeroplanes had crashed in flames, and the motor lifeboat John and Charles Kennedy was launched at 4.45 P.M. A light westerly...
Minnie
RAMSGATE.—In answer to signal guns, the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan at 2.15 A.M. on the 14th of March, during a fresh N.E. wind. After cruising about for some time without finding any vessel in...
Amanda, of Coleraine
The Laura, Countess of Antrim, Life-boat, saved 7 men from the brigantine Amanda, of Cole- raine, on the morning of the 3rd October, during a heavy gale from N.W. This was a truly noble service, and tested to the utmost the endurance of the...
Fishing Boats
MONTROSE.—On the 21st August the herring fleet started for the fishing ground in favourable weather; but during the night the wind blew very strongly from the E.S.E., increasing to a moderate gale, while a very heavy sea broke across thebar....