LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Smack
PORTHDINLLAEN.—At 4 P.M. on the 2nd August, during a southerly gale, a fishing smack belonging to Llanaelhaiarn had her sails carried away when ten miles from port, and was seen drifting to the N. before the storm. The Life-boat Cotton...
Good Intent
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. — On the morning of the 80th September, a vessel was seen with signals of distress about 5 miles 13. of Skegness. The crew of the Herbert Ingra,m> Life-boat were at once summoned, and the Life-boat having been...
Telephone
CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
The Belgian Motor Trawler Victoria
Ramsgate, Kent.—About 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing vessel aground on the Quern Shoal Brake Sands, and at 3.36 the life-boat Prudential was launched. A gale wasblowing from the...
Ena
On the 19th July the motor yacht Ena, of Greenock, bound from Douglas to Greenock with eight persons on board, was in difficulty owing to trouble with her engine, two and a half miles W.S.W.
of Portpatrick. A strong S.W....
A Rowing Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—In the early afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a man had gone out in a rowing boat, to tow in a dinghy which had blown out to sea, was unable to make headway and...
A Cabin Cruiser
Cromarty. At 8.30 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser with one man on board was missing between Chanonry Point and Inverness. The life-boat Lilla Marras, Douglas...
Workington - North Division
Workington's unique davit launch system for the station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in a strictly functional building just outside the Prince of Wales dock - at the root of the pier in the main photo - having been outside in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Minnie II
MCH. 11TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARseaplane.
VONSHIRE. The life-boat motor mechanic saw a sailing yacht which appeared to be in difficulties about three miles S.E. of the lifeboathouse.
A moderate N.N.W. gale...
Eidswold
On the 7th December, the tug and Lifeboat went out at about 6 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the brig Eidswold, of Arendal, Norway,bound from Sundsvall, Sweden, to Poole.
She had gone ashore...