LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Triharda
Crew saved after long and difficult service to capsized trimaran Yarmouth's Arun Joy and John Wade was involved in a service on 11 December 1993 which made headlines in the national press. The lifeboat had spent nearly five hours at sea ...
Dagenite Batteries
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A Fishing Vessel
European Co-operation The Ijmuiden lifeboat Christ/en was visiting Lowestoft on 17 October when the Coastguard reported a fishing vessel broken down a few hundred yards off the harbour mouth.
As Christian's crew were...
(Right) Arun:
(right) Arun: length overall 52ft or 54ft; beam 17ft; draught 5ft; displacement 31 tons; maximum speed 18 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The Arun, introduced in 1971, has a crew of six; she lies afloat. Hulls of the first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
The 44ft Wavenev lifeboat Khami exercising with a Sea King helicopter from RAF Coltishall.
When the picture was taken, by Richard J. Wilson, Khami was on station at Great Yarmouth and Gorleslon; she is now in the Relief... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Port Isaac August 8 1987:
PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wells, of Goole
SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—On the 14th April, at daylight, the schooner Wells, of Goole, was observed at anchor off this station, with a signal of distress flying.
The schooner was in a dangerous position on a lee shore, a heavy...
Ariadne Johanna
Berwick-on- Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Ariadne Johanna, of Schevenin- gen, which was one mile east of the pier,...
Ros Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1953.
the Civic Guard at Portmagee reported that the fishing boat Ros Corr, of Dublin, with a crew of six, needed help seven miles north of Bray Head....
A Carley Float
APRIL 16TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
At 7.35 P.M. the coastguard reported an object on the sea in a south-easterly direction from Blackhead, and at 7.40 P.M. the motor life-boat The Three Sisters was...