LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
APRIL 26TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN.
A motor boat had gone aground in dense fog, but was able to get off unaided.- Rewards, £6 15s.
(See Cloughry, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 145)..
The Love(Life)Boat
On 20 March newly weds Anthony and Cherie Summers of Holyhead got the surprise of their life when they left the church to find that their traditional Rolls Royce had been replaced by Trearddur Bay lifeboat, Dorothy Selina.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Deborah B Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's First Lifeboat Is a 15' Grp Hamilton Jet-Propelled Open Launch from New Zealand on Service Around Bermuda She Will
Deborah B, Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's first lifeboat is a 15' GRP Hamilton jet-propelled open launch from New Zealand. On service around Bermuda she will be operating in waters beset with coral reefs and shallows: she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Torquay Star
SHARK FISHERS TOWED HOME Torbay, Devon. At 6.55 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Brixham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel was flashing the international distress signal about three and a...
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
SPRING 2018 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr WD Wilson from Dorset who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs B Flippence, Essex
Category: Articles
S.S. Queensbury
JUNE 6TH. - MONTROSE ANGUS, AND GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At one in the morning the Montrose station heard from the coastguard that a convoy was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes thirteen miles E. 3/4 N. from Scurdyness, and at six minutes...
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AUGUST 20TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A rocket had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £10 2s..
A Looe Fishing Boat
DECEMBER 1 1TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
A Looe fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she reached harbour unaided. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
The Spray
At 2.52 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, a fishing vessel had broken down about one mile off the coastguard lookout hut at Foreness point and one of the five occupants was waving an oar with a white shirt attached. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson,...
Amstelstroom
Appledore, Devon.—During a thick fog in the early hours of the morning of the 18th of July, 1948, the motor ship Amstelstroom, of Amsterdam went aground on the rocky coast of Lundy Island. Her crew of eleven got...