LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Leeds Shoreline Club
A scale model of the Barra Island Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, was a great attraction, especially for children, when on display in the Leeds Merrion shopping centre.
The model, made by Brian Hobson... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sagacity
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. As the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was returning to her station at about 2.55 P.M. after an unsuccessful search for an aeroplane she heard two loud explosions, and on reaching Spurn Point she...
A Steamer (7)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - ABERDEEN, AND NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A steamer had foundered after being in collision, but all her crew, fifty-four in number, were saved by their own boats and rafts and by another vessel. - Rewards : Aberdeen, £6...
Coastguards Honoured
The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Douglas Jay, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year 1965-66 to the Walton-on-Naze Coastguard Rescue Company for their rescue of nine men by breeches buoy from the stranded motor...
Category: Awards
Hobah
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND. — The ketch.
Hobah, of and for Falmouth, from Glasgow, laden with coal, ran ashore between Ballycormick Point and Groomspoit •whilsttrying to obtain shelter daring stormy weather on the 20th September....
Helen Macgregor
The schooner Helen Macgregor, of Dublin, whilst bound from Scotland to Arklow, was lying at anchor off Cahore Point, on the 20th August. Towards evening the •wind increased to a fresh gale with a very rough and heavy sea, and at 8.30 P.M.,...
A Rowing Boat
On the after- noon of the 25th June the coastguard reported that a rowing boat with six apparently inefficient persons on board was making towards harbour. Shortly afterwards a thick fog settled down and it was decided to send out the motor...
The Seine-Net Fishing Vessel Mizpah
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At o.30 on the evening of the 27th April, 1961, the life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton was launched on exercise in a light north- easterly breeze with a slight sea and fog.
Half-a-mile from the...
Eagle of Sunderland
On the night of the 16th September, 1859, the brig Eagle, of Sunderland, anchored in a leaky state off Bridlington Quay, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the eastward. Finding the water fast gaining on them, the master was compelled to...
The S.S. City of Venice
CADGWITH, CORNWALL,.—Minute guns having been heard at 9 P.M. on the 20th of March, the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat was very promptly launched, four minutes only being occupied in getting her afloat, and proceeded to the S.W., in which...