LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Abide
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 4.45 in the morning of the 10th of September, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that the Portpatrick radio station had reported the steam drifter Abide, of Peterhead, bound for the Clyde, aground in the Sound...
Fishing Boats (2)
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 11.35 on the morning of the 29th of Novem- ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats had not returned to harbour. Some anxiety was felt, as there was a heavy swell,...
A Yacht (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off the Little Orme. Shortly afterwards the yacht...
My Heart's Content
YACHT FOUND CLOSE INSHORE UNDER CLIFF Hastings, Sussex. At 8.15 on the morning of the 22nd October, 1962, a yacht was seen close inshore under the cliffs between Hastings and Ecclesbourne Glen. There was a light eastsouth- east breeze and...
Eventide
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 15th of October, 1955, the weather worsened while several fishing boats were still at sea.
By ten o'clock all of them had returned to harbour except the local...
Bridlington's Mersey Class 1 Lifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird
Lightning strike Bridlington's Mersey class 1 ifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird, alerted in the service above, is pictured in action later, on 27 June 1989, when she was called to the aid of a Whitbyregistered coble. The vessel had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Penrhyn
PORT ERROLL, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th July a dense fog, which had prevailed about eight hours, lifted and disclosed a vessel close in shore at Whinnyfold, South of Crnden Scars, and apparently on the...
Kittiwake
Weymouth, Dorset.—-On the after- noon of the 5th of April, 1947, the small yacht Ki tiwake, with one man wi board, lost her sails in Weymouth Bay and ran on a sandbank. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately tough sea and...
Darling
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the morning of the 19th May, signal rockets being fired by the light-ship and coast-guard station, the Willie and Arthur Life-boat put off at 2 o'clock, and proceeded in tow of a steam-tug to Taylor's Bank, where the...
Front Cover
Front cover: PWt lifeguards Watt Harlot and Christina S«j*e See page 10 for a review of the Beach Hflot scheme. - View image in PDF
Picture: RNLI/Derek King. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs