LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Top: a Contemporary Artist's Impression of Southport Lifeboat
Top: a contemporary artist's impression of Southport lifeboat at the moment of her capsize (reproduced by courtesy of The Illustrated London News Picture Library)..
Category: Drawings
Lowestoft Motor Life-Boat and the Airship R33
ON the morning of 16th April the airship JR33 broke away from her moorings at the aerodrome, at Pulham, in Norfolk, and was carried out to sea by a strong W.S.W. gale. She was seen to cross the coast at 10.15 A.M., obviously in diffi-...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Danish Fishing Boat Vesterland
OCTOBER 2 3RD. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 11.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel five or six miles N.E. by N. of Buckie, burning what appeared to be distress signals, and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.55...
Lewis Drops In
Lewis drops in Actor Kevin Whately, known to many as Inspector Lewis of television's Inspector Morse, took time out of his busy schedule to open the Seahouses lifeboat fete on August 30.
Kevin, together with his actress... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Servic
During a whole S. by E. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, on the 13th January, the 'oxswain was at the Coastguard Look- out, when, at 10.25 A.M., a message was received from Gorleston that a vessel off Gorton was firing a signal for...
A Motor Fishing Boat (5)
OCT . 4TH . - FLEETWOOD , A N D LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A motor fishing boat, with two on board, was, long overdue. A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was rough. Both life-boats searched all night, but found nothing, and it was...
Florence Baxter
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 9th of September, 1953, the harbour authorities telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Florence Baxter was burning a flare off Rossall Point. At 9.25 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell...
Miranda
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 2.5 in the afternoon, on the 22nd of September, 1950, a fisherman reported that a yacht was in difficulties. She had lost her mainsail, and was close inshore, going towards Weybourne. Then she altered course and...
Fortis
Weymouth, Dorset. — At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 6th of May, 1951, the life-boat mechanic saw the auxiliary ketch Fortis, of Portsmouth, in a dan- gerous position off Weymouth. The honorary secretary, Mr. Kenneth...
Highlander
ESCORT FOR YACHT REPORTED DRIFTING Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 24th March, 1962, the coastguard at Nell's Point informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Flatholm lighthouse...