LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Schooner
In the early hours of the morning of 5th April, the Coxswain was roused by fishermen who reported that a vessel was apparently in distress on the South Tail. Although no signals of distress were seen, it was thought advisable to send out the...
A Motor Launch
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—On the night of the 14th of April, 1948, the Civic Guard telephoned that a boat was in distress in the bay, and at 11 o'clock the motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosvueller was...
Sainte Catherine
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. Shortly before midday on the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the French trawler Sainte Catherine of L'Orient, with a crew of nine, had gone ashore in Dungarvan Bay. At twelve...
A Boat (1)
Swanage, Dorset - At 7.24 a.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties 150 yards offshore opposite the Grand Hotel. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 7.45 in a fresh south...
Weymouth Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
Weymouth lifeboat Tony Vandervell returns to Weymouth Harbour with the Poole-based yacht Piepenhannes in tow. The yacht fouled a propeller on a pot line at Lulworth Cove on September 6, 1987 and ran aground. A local fishing boat helped her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
A COLLECTION in aid of the Institution was made at the Silverstone Inter- national Trophy meeting on the 15th of May by kind permission of the Daily Express and the British Racing Drivers' Club. A total of £131 7s....
Category: Donations
Prosperity
THE WHTTBY FISHING BOATS AGAIN Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 30th of April, 1947, several fishing boats put out to move their crab-pots into deep water as stormy weather was pending. About 10.30 two of the boats were seen ...
Progress
On the morning of the 23rd February the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched for her monthly engine trials, in bad weather. The local motor fishing boat Progress also put out, long-line fishing. By 10.20 A.M. a heavy gale was...
Alexandra
ASHORE IN A THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 7.20 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1947, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that a tug was ashore on Bush Rock, and that three women and two boys had been taken off by...
Saunterer, of Blyth
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — During the afternoon of the 5th August the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Tyne sands, three miles west of Dunbar. She was the sailing yacht Saunterer, of Blyth, cruising in the Firth of Forth and...