LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thames
Length 15.5m (50ft 11 in) Beam 4.62m (15ft2in) Displacement 27.5 and 29 tons Speed 17.5 knots Range 210 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Steel. - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetland*.—On the 20th April the motor life-boat went to Papa Stour to bring to hospital a small boy with afractured thigh. (Full account on page 122.) Expenses were paid by the Department of Health for Scotland..
Right: Abersoch Boathouse
Right: Abersoch boathouse, in common with all RNLI shoreworks projects, is built in materials sympathetic to the local environment.. - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 8TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Star shells fired from a naval vessel had been mistaken for distress signals. - Rewards, £12 2s..
Family's Pride
Montrose, Angus.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 25th of August, 1953, the Usan coastguard passed on a message from a pilot that the Arbroath fishing boat Family's Pride had left Montrose under sail that afternoon, bound for Arbroath with...
A Motor Cabin Cruiser
BOWMAN PUT ON BOARD IN HEAVY SEAS Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cabin cruiser was firing red flares close to Portland...
S.S. Wilno, of Gdynia, Poland
APRIL 22ND. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A message was received from the Winterton coastguard at 12.50 in the afternoon that a steamer appeared to be aground on North Caister Shoal about two miles from the coastguard station. A moderate...
A Fishing Boat
Peel and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—• 23rd July. A fishing boat had not returned to Peel with the fleet, but she was found by a trawler which joined the life-boats in the search.—Rewards, Peel, £10 4s. 6d; Port Erin, £7 2s..
The Finnish Steamer Axel
Holyhead, Anglesey. — 24th October, 1937. A distress message had been received from the Finnish steamer Axel, which was on fire. She had, however, given a wrong bearing. She was not off Holyhead, but off the Dutch coast. Her crew were...
Two Vessels
Walmer, Kent.—15th March, 1938.
Two vessels had been in collision, but the crew of one had been taken off by a Belgian steamer, and the other vessel could not be found in the fog.— Rewards, £29 Os. Qd..