LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary
NEAR DUMPTON GAP Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.45 p.m. on i8th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles off Broadstairs was apparently having some difficulty in the fresh to near gale force...
Shearwater Press
NOW Available FOR THOSE IN PERIL The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.
Robert Kelly Illustrated by Norman Sayle £4.75 For Those in Peril tells of the early days of the Royal National...
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St. Nicholas
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland - At 10.10 a.m. on 22nd March, 1969, news was received that a red flare had been sighted five miles east of Berwick pier. At 10.25 the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched in a moderate south...
A Boat (Fomer Naval Pinnace)
MAY 1ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
At eight in the evening the St. Abbs Head signal station telephoned that a boat was apparently stationary about ten miles westnorth- west of St. Abbs Head. The weather was fine, but as the...
Sally
JUNE 11TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.10 P.M. a message was received from the police that a motor boat was in difficulties off Seacombe Stage and needed immediate help. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing with a choppy sea. The No. 2...
Barra Island's 52Ft Barnett R a Colby Cubbin No 3 (Below Right)
and Barra Island's 52ft Barnett R. A. Colby Cubbin No 3 (below right, photograph by courtesy of HMS Gannett) are fitted with emergency air bags to give them a righting capability. The bags are seen here inflated after the two boats had... - View image in PDF
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Prince
Torbay, Devon.—At 6.55 P.M. on the 16th January, 1939, it was reported that the open motor fishing boat Prince, of Torquay, with three men on board,was overdue on a trip from Torquay to Brixham, and that owing to the poor condition of her...
Dorothy Margaret
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN GALE Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.32 on the evening of the 23rd January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Dorothy Margaret had been in difficulties with engine trouble and...
Onward
Douglas, Isle of Man. At 10.15 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1957, the harbour master reported that a flare had been seen two and a half miles off Douglas Head. At 10.25 the life- boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was launched in a...
Pirouttie
YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...