LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Restless Wave
Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 2nd June, 1938, the local fishing bDat Restless Wave, returning t'o harbour, missed the tide, and lay off the harbour bar to wait for sufficient water to enable her to enter. The wind rose, making...
Bluebell
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — Shortly before 6 o'clock in the morning of the 16th of September, 1948, a message was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, had broken down nine miles to the...
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 11.30 a.m. on 23rd May, 1965, the crew of the inshore rescue boat which was on exercise saw a sailing dinghy with two people on board capsize one and a half miles south of the station. The IRB made for the capsized dinghy...
Fishing Cobles
Whitby, Yorkshire.—After a sudden heavy squall about eight o'clock in the morning on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard and coxswain observed that a number of small fishing cobles were in danger of being swamped by the seas....
Dr Fergus Mckenna Visited Skye In the Spring
Dr Fergus McKenna visited Skye in the spring to give ten different talks about the RNLI to different audiences on the Island. Thus encouraged, Skye branch held an open day at Talisker House which made £450. In front of Talisker House,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
V Webster
TEDDY BEARS PICNIC When your organisation holds its next fund raising effort at a carnival, fete, donkey derby, boat show or similar activity you can make an additional £200 in a few hours by running a Teddy Bears Picnic. No financial...
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Karina II
Poole, Dorset - At 1.20 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Studland bay. The life-boat Bassett Green slipped her moorings in a fresh to strong north easterly breeze...
Clyde and Harbinger
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
The S.S. Helena Modjeska, of New Orleans
SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.8 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard telephoned that a ship was in danger of going aground on the Goodwins. A light south-east wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...
Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis
On the 14th No-vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm laden, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night being very dark. The Lyme...