LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Idle Hour
JUNE 28TH. - NEW QUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.
At 4 P.M. the crew and helpers had assembled for an exercise launch when the small sailing boat Idle Hour, of New Quay, with a crew of two, was seen drifting to the east of the harbour...
A Dinghy (3)
Swanage, Dorset - At 2.30 p.m. on 16th October, 1966, a party of 10 skin divers were being swept over Peveril ledge and were in need of assistance. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.40 in a fresh west south westerly wind and a rough...
The Light Self-Righting Type of Motor Life-Boat
The City of Nottingham, stat'cned at Hythe, Kent, 35 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 10 inches, with a 35 h.p. engine.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Fishing Boats
REDCAR.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched at 10.15 A.M., on the 14th April, and helped two fishing - boats which had been overtaken by stormy weather and a heavy sea..
Clytie
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 1.0 on the after- noon of the 19th of August, 1952, a message was received that the sailing yacht Clytie had gone ashore five hundred yards to the west of the river Clwyd. The owner was advised to put ashore three...
Lizzie
On the 12th -February shortly before 5 P.M.
signals of distress were observed on the schooner Lizzie, of Salcombe, lying at anchor in Torbay. The crew of the Life-boat Betsey Newbon were summoned, and the boat launched. On...
Luffness
Aberdeen. On the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the steam trawler Luffness, of Granton, went aground at the north pier. She was badly holed and her crew had decided to leave her.
At 10.45 the life-boat Hilton Briggs...
Kathleen
Aground on rocks A MEMBER OF LYME REGIS inshore lifeboat crew informed his honorary secretary at 1300 on Sunday, July 18, that a cabin cruiser was being driven on to Broad Ledge Rocks, half a mile east of the ILB station, and that one of her...
The Institution's Engines
AT a luncheon of the Rotary Club at Deptford in July last an address was given by the District Organizing Secre- tary for Greater London. In the course of the address he referred to the fact that the engines used in Life-boats wereof the...
Category: Articles
Sunshine
Amble, Northumberland. At 9.10 on the morning of the 29th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Sunshine of Port Seton was making for Amble. Because of the severe weather it was suggested that...