LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whitstable
WHITSTABLE, Sunday January 19, 1986: a 24ft fishing boat, Duke Senior, with a party of anglers on board ran aground outside the harbour in a strong westerly force 9 gale. She was later re-floated by the rising tide and at 1417 she was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mona
At 2.19 a.m. on I3th July, 1966, a red flare had been reported about three miles offshore in an easterly direction. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 2.45 in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...
Corsair
TOW ROPE PARTED Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.15 a-m- on ist October, 1963, a pilot told the honorary secretary that a motor boat was burning flares about two miles north-west of Troon harbour. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken left her...
A Small Boat (5)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. At five in the afternoon three men left Burtonport in a small boat for Arranmore, but they had not arrived by nine o’clock. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
Ros Alither
FISHING VESSEL AND FIVE TOWED TO SAFETY Valentia, Co. Kerry. At half past five on the morning of Saturday the 10th of August, 1963, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in difficulties south-west of...
U.S.A. Liberty Ship James Eagan Layne
MARCH 21ST. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.3 in the afternoon a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a vessel was sinking five miles north-east of Eddystone, as the result of enemy action.
A...
Paragon
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At seven o'clock on the night of the 3rd of February, 1950, a local fisherman reported that the fishing boat Paragon, of Arklow, had gone on the rocks off Ireland's Eye.
At 7.13, therefore, the...
Mrs Asa Richman
Mrs Asa Richman explains the art of spinning at the craft fair held last autumn by Wembury Peninsula branch, Plymouth.
Other demonstrations were given by a potter, glass engraver, macrame worker, pewter worker, flower... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sprite
APRIL 22ND. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M.
the motor life-boat...
Maria (1)
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in difficulties about one and a half miles S.W. of the Swin...