LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Excel
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the evening of the 17th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that the steam drifter Excel IV was aground on Gun Rock, Fame Islands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was...
A Motor Boat (1)
DANGEROUSLY CLOSE At 8.50 p.m. on 9th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was in difficulties off Trebetherick Point. The sea was slight with light south-westerly...
Concord
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. At 6.15 p.m. on loth July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor fishing 'vessel Concord had broken down'7!^ miles south-east of Gourdon. The life-boat the Edith Clouson-Thue...
Other Life-Boat Launches
OTHER LIFE-BOAT LAUNCHES In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 195 and 198 the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1969, January and...
Category: Services
Moonbeam, the S.S. City of Dublin and Marie Victoire
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1956, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that the Cowes police had re- ported a yacht aground on the East Brambles, which was being pounded severely. The life-boat...
Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling
Three local fishing cobles, Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling, went out crabbing on the morning of the 10th February. Shortly afterwards the sea became rough and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched to their help. A...
The Tide Making
As it makes it not only flows through the channels but soaks into the sands.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (4)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. An overdue fishing boat was thought to be in difficulties, but she had been delayed because she was down to the deck with an exceptionally large catch of herrings and got safely into Kinsale. - Rewards...
Venture and Kestrel
Dunbar, East Lothian. At four o'clock on the morning of the 30th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported two small boats overdue which were on passage from Aberdeen to Port Seton. One...
Sven Knud
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel, one and a half miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head, was flying a distress signal. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...