LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rose of Lancaster
OPERATION AT SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5 a.m. on nth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Rose of Lancaster of Liverpool had a sick man on board who required medical attention. There was a...
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.L.I. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by virtually everlasting 'Betalite'. It has two range...
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The Cutter-Rigged Yacht Lalla Rookh
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.41 on the 4th of April, 1953, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht was in distress one and a half miles south-east of Portland Bill and was burning flares. At 9.55 the life- boat Milburn, on...
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MARCH 12TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Signals had been reported by the coastguard, but nothing but a convoy travelling north could be found. - Rewards, £16 2s. 6d..
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The S.S. Oscar
WHITBY.—On the 5th January, the Life-boat Robert Whitworth was launched at 10.40 P.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 22 persons, from the s.s. Oscar, of Leith, which vessel had struck off the Whitby Rocks during thick weather and in a...
The S.S. Capitol
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1952, the police reported that the S.S. Capitol, of London, wanted to land a sick man and would be off the harbour about four o'clock. She arrived at...
Airy Mouse
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th Sep- tember, 1961, relatives of the crew of five of the yacht Airy Mouse telephoned the honorary secretary to say the yacht, which had left Alderney at 11.30 the...
An Old Life-Boatman
John Wilson of St. Abbs, mending his net. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Washington
SEPT. 2ND. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 6.36 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head. The weather was very foggy, with a fresh southerly...