LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
Holy Island, Northumberland.—On the 21st January the North Sunderland honorary secretary asked, through the coastguard, for the motor life-boat Milburn to go to the help of twelve North Sunderland motor fishing cobles which had been caught...
Radiant
Dover, Kent - At 6.46 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Radiant was in difficulties with engine trouble between Folkestone and Dover. The life-boat Faithful Forester slipped her...
Skim
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 3.3 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small sloop appeared to be in difficulties off Warden point. There was a gale from the southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
The S.S. Noordam
OCT. 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.20 P.M. the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Noordam, of Rotterdam, lying off Deal, had signalled for a boat to take a man ashore for an immediate operation. A strong E. by S. wind was blowing with a...
Venus
FEBRUARY 9TH. - HASTINGS; SUSSEX.
At 7.47 A.M. a message was received from the Fairlight coastguard that a vessel was ashore half a mile off Winchelsea. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 8.5...
Yvonne
JUNE 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.44 A.M. the North Goodwin Light-vessel southerly breeze was blowing and the sea was reported that a vessel had struck a mine one calm, At 8.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Prudential was launched and found that...
Aquilla
OC T O B E R 5 T H . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 10.20 A.M. the Mersey Dock Board reported that the coasting steamer Aquilla, of Liverpool, was flying distress signals in Formby Channel off Q3 Red Buoy. A moderate westerly gale was blowing,...
Lifeboats Live on In Oz
Lifeboats live on in Oz Ex-Arun lifeboat, Spirit of Tayside, was sold to the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol and placed on station at Port Stephens, New South Wales in September. This picture was taken as the boat was being lifted out of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Keel Boat Mary Joy
DECEMBER 11TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The local fishing boats were out, a strong south-south-east wind was blowing, raising a heavy, broken sea, and the life-boat crew were standing by. At 3.23 in the afternoon the Burniston coastguard...
Molly
DECEMBER 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about noon some small fishing boats were seen south of the harbour. A strong northwesterly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea and snow squalls. The coastguard kept them in view,...