LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Broughty Castle
DOUGLAS.—The Life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched, at 6.15 P.M. on the 7th January, to the assistance of the schooner Broughty Castle, of and for Portaferry from Dublin in ballast, which, having dragged her anchors in Douglas Bay,...
Young Robert
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1952, a message was received from the coastguard that a motor fishing boat had broken down off Torness and was burning oil rags as a signal for...
Thunderball
Brighton, Sussex. At 3 p.m. on 24th July, 1965, whilst the station was being visited by the Station Officer, H.M.
Coastguard, Newhaven, a catamaran was seen to be in difficulties off the Palace Pier. At 3.10 the IRB...
A Fishing Vessel
STANDING BY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 9.50 a.m. on i8th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in distress south of C 2 buoy. There was a moderate north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The...
Two Punts
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 12.20 p.m.
on 6th June, 1967, while the life-boat A.M.T. was on passage from Malahide to Howth, the coxswain saw two punts about half a mile away. There was a fresh wind and a choppy sea. It was one...
Safeguard Security
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Category: Advertisement
A Motor Yacht (1)
Long tow in difficult conditions for Skegness and Humber lifeboats Skegness and Humber lifeboats were both involved in a long service when conditions became too severe for a classic, 1920s-built motor yacht on a delivery passage from Great...
Morning Star
GORLESTON.—On the 9th October, at about 2 P.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, Leicester, was launched and proceeded to the assistance of the dandy Morning Star, of Great Yarmouth, on a fishing voyage with a crew of six men, which had stranded on the...
Peaceful Retirement
On the beach at Deal. Thomas Cribben, second-coxswain of the Deal life-boat from 1921 until the station was closed in October 1932.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Campania
The Motor Life-boat Morison Watson was launched at mid- day on the 18th October as the owner of the fishing boat Campaina had brought news that his boat, which was riding at anchor in Garlieston Bay, with no one on board, was in danger of...