LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Ocean Venture, Lead Us, and Wakeful
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 12.40 p.m.
on 5th January, 1967, news was received that three local fishing vessels were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating rapidly with very heavy seas breaking at the approach to the...
Eminence
AIDING THROMBOSIS PATIENT At 1.35 a.m. on 26th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Eminence bound from Sunderland to Goole wished to land a sick seaman at Whitby. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
Margaret
MAY 19TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 12.12 P.M. a message was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that a small fishing boat, about a half mile off shore, appeared unable to get back. At 12.35 P.M. a further...
Britannia
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd April, 1939, a heavy N.N.W. gale sprang up while the fishing fleet was at sea. Several boats landed with difficulty and it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina...
The S.S. Vic 72
AUGUST 20TH - 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
During the afternoon of the 20th the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was watching a ship to the south of Skegness pier, and just before eight o’clock the coastguard...
A Rowing Boat
Newhaven, Sussex. — At half past eleven on the morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched for exer- cise. There was a choppy sea, with an easterly breeze blowing. As she was returning, she...
Betty
At 4 A.M. on the 11th April, during a strong wind from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea, the British Workman Lifeboat was launched to the aid of the brig Betty of Tonsberg, Norway, which had grounded on the Hasborough Bank, and had floated off in...
Committee Members Draw the Lottery
A few days before the draw. Mrs Sandra Ward who with her husband had won the star prize of a Volvo 440 SE car in the January lottery, was presented with the keys by Mr Charles Hunter-Pease (centre), managing director of Volvo Car UK at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (1)
FOUR PEOPLE SAVED BY SPEEDBOAT Swanage, Dorset. At 5.53 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Swanage coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with four people on board appeared to be in difficulties half a...
Lizzie
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull light-ship on the 24th June, the Bradford Life-boat went out at 3.30 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, where the schooner Lizzie, of Fleetwood, coal laden, was stranded.The...