LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ruby
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 2.15 in the afternoon on the llth of March, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was showing a distresssignal two miles east of Collieston. At 2.30 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
Xema
RUDDER WAS BROKEN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.15 P-m- on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a red flare about 2^ miles west of the harbour. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a...
H.M. Trawler Braes of Buckie
MAY 21ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
A report was received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore two miles south of McArthur Head, Islay, and at 8.30 at night the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched. The...
Lifeboat People
Island Visit Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, was a guest of Brigadier S. P. Robertson of the Committee of Management, at his home on the island of Orkney for four days in August. He arrived aboard Kirkwall'...
Category: Articles
Cruiser, of Hartlepool
The Bradford life-boat again went out and saved the brig Cruiser, of Hartlepool, and her crew of 6 men, which vessel had stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
Plowman, of Yarmouth
The Dvff life-boat at Great Yar- mouth was the means of taking the smack Plowman, of Yarmouth, and her craw of 7 men safely into Lowestoft Harbour.
Ashore at Bolt Head, Devon
The Lowestoft steam drifter Charter, wrecked on January 7th, 1933. The Salcombe Motor Life-boat stood by, but the crew got ashore unaided.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosalie
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a man reported that a small vessel four miles east-south-east of Walney light- house was flying a flag and appeared to be in difficulties. At three o'clock the...
Equerry
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the harbour master reported that the trawler Equerry, of Grimsby, which was in Peterhead Bay on her way to the fishing grounds, had an injured man on board....
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Clovelly, North Devon.—At 10.20 on the night of the llth of May, 1956, the Hartland Point coastguard rang up to sav that Mr. Gade, the resident agent on Lundy Island, was anxious that his son-in-law should be taken to the mainland as soon as...