LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pansy
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 15th of January, 1953.
it was reported that the local motor boat Pansy, with a crew of two, had broken down and was drifting off Noss Head, and at 6.40 the life-boat City...
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...
An American Jet Aircraft
Dover, Kent.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of November, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard tele- phoned that an American jet aircraft had crashed off Kingsdown, about one and a half miles east-north-east of Dover, and that the...
P.M.
TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE St. Helier, Jersey. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 6th August, 1962, the harbour radio station informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was believed to have capsized about two miles south of Demie de Pas lighthouse,...
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Stanmore Branch
Members of Stanmore branch profited well from outdoor souvenir sales last summer. Here they are in Victorian dress to comply with the requirements of a garden party staged at the Grims Dyke Hotel, the former home of librettist W. S.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dinghies
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At about 4 p.m. on 2oth June, 1965, the coxswain and another man were watching dinghies racing in the estuary when a sudden gust of wind capsized four dinghies at once. The sailing club's rescue boats were...
Violet
LIFE-BOAT ASSISTS GROUNDED MOTOR BOAT Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.35 p.m.
on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the Orlock coastguard told the motor mechanic that a man had reported a boat stranded on the rocks at the north end...
Craigievar
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 4.12 on the morning of the 25th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three red flares had been seen off Fort Castle Head, three miles west of St. Abbs Head. The life-boat Clara and...
William Frothingham, of New York
Signals of distress were exhibited by a large full-rigged ship about two miles and a half to the north- ward of this place, on the 22nd of Octo- ber, whereupon the Benjamin Bond Gabbell life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel,...