LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (3)
Seven fishing cobles went off early in the morning of the 6th April to their crab-pots, but when the time came for their returning, the entrance to the harbour was very dangerous owing to the strong easterly sea and the outset of the tide....
Hermann
On the morning of the 25th February signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Mid Scroby Sand. A heavy sea was running at the time, and a strong wind was blowing from the N. The Lifeboat Beauchamp was launched at about 3...
Ratafia
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 on the evening of the 27th of Septem- ber, 1958, the coastguard at Foreland informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in distress two miles south of the look-out. At 9.14 the life-boat Jesse...
Glenwood
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.15 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor barge needed help one mile north-east of the North Knob buoy. At 11.36 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
None (7)
Aith, Shetlands. At 7.5 on the evening of the 10th of December, 1960,a doctor at Walls telephoned the honorary secretary to say he had received an urgent call from the Island of Foula, and that a patient might have to be...
Tjoba
DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL ESCORTED IN GALE Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.55 on the morning of the 13th January, 1962, the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) had just returned to her station from investigating a report of a white...
Queensferry- Scotland Division
Queensferry's Atlantic 21 lifeboat station is another which is easily found by reference to a famous structure, as clearly shown on the left! The station itself is at the very bottom of the photo, at the landward end of the pier to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drakkar
INJURED ON TRAWLER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 6.55 p.m. on igth January, 1965, Waterford Harbour Commissioners were informed by Land's End radio station that there was a badly injured man with a cut artery on board the French...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
LOBSTER BOAT DRIFTING IN A GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—During the morning of the 20th of November, 1947, the relatives of two local men who had put out in a lobster fishing boat, reported that they were overdue and as a moderate south...
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies (1)
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...
Category: Obituaries