LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Cabin cruiser
RED FLARES At 5.15 p.m. on ist December, 1964, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser off Broad Bench had fired red flares. There was a choppy sea with a moderate to fresh north-easterly wind. The...
Cover Picture
RNLB Barham, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, when on station in May 1980. She is named in memory of HMS Barham which was torpedoed in 1941 and more than half her cost was provided by a bequest from the brother... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986. She is the first in what the local branch hope will be a succession of beauties, all of whom will help promote local RNLI activities. Karen Bennetts was chosen from many contestants at a special fund raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Claudine, of Antwerp
BUCKIE. — The schooner Claudine, of Antwerp, bound to Ipswich, was observed about noon on the 20th January, when blowing very hard from S.W., with snow squalls, to be drifting to the eastward in a helpless and disabled state. The Life-boat...
Hereward
EAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At 9 A.M. on the 27th September a mounted messenger brought information that a dismasted vessel was showing signals of distress about a mile from the shore. The Lifeboat Two Sisters was promptly launched and proceeded to...
Lyra
PORT ERIN.—The schooner Lyra, of Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, bound from Liverpool for Dublin with a cargo of salt, missed stays, and was driven ashore on the Carrick Kock in Port St. Mary Bay during a terrific gale from the S.W. and a high...
Providence
Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 5th February in- formation reached Grimsby that a fish- ing boat was off the Bull Lighthouse in an unmanageable condition, and was drifting out to sea. A whole N.N.W.
gale was blowing, and the...
Vesta and Ripple
ALDEBURGH.—Signal rockets were fired from the Coastguard Station at 9.10 A.M., on the 25th August, denoting a vessel in need of assistance. A moderate gale was blowing from the S.W., with rain, and there was a rough sea. The...
Guiding Star
HOLY ISLAND.—Great anxiety was felt here on the 16th February regarding one of the fishing-cobles, the Guiding Star, with four men on board, which had not returned to the harbour. Night was drawing near, the wind, which had sprung up...
Margaret Murray
— On the 23rd December, during a strong south-west- erly breeze and rough sea, the schooner Margaret Murray, of Padstow, stranded on a sandbank to the eastward of the harbour. As it was thought that, with the assistance of steam power, it...