LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Winifred, Lead Us and Energy
VERY ROUGH SEA At 6.45 a.m. on 29th November, 1965, three motor fishing vessels were reported to be still at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at 7.5, an hour before high...
The Lions of Trafalgar Stand Guard As Volunteers and Supporters Man the Displays and Collect Cash {Above)
The lions of Trafalgar stand guard as volunteers and supporters man the displays and collect cash {above) while Stanley Potter aka Stormy Stan fteftl looks after the children.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ada (1)
On the 14th November, at about 5.30 P.M., an easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth to Buncorn, with china clay, had taken refuge in the bay, as she was leaking badly...
Grimsby Trawler Owners and the Life-Boat Service
FOR some time past it has been felt by the Institution that its Branch at Grimsby did not receive from the trawler owners the support which it bad reason to expect in view of the fact that Grimsby is the chief centre of the British Fishing...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Flandres and the Liberian Steamer Trader (1)
Dover and Walmer, Kent. At 2.24 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Flandres, of Antwerp, had been in collision with the Liberian steamer Trader four miles south-east of the Goodwin Sands,...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
A further substantial increase in the receipts and a further satisfactory decrease in the working expenses! This is the highly gratifying report supplied by the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund as the result of their labours...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of November, 1953, the Lade coastguard telephoned the Dungeness life-boat station that the S.S. Perou, of Havre, had reported that she had been...
The Trio: the Rev T S Treanor Chaplain and Steersman Coxswain G Norris and Bowman S Wilds
The trio: the Rev. T. S. Treanor, chaplain and steersman, Coxswain G. Norris and Bowman S. Wilds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Steamer Denham
JULY 18TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. While the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board steamer Denham was engaged on survey work she struck a mine about two hundred yards south-west of Rock 3 Block buoy. She was completely wrecked, throwing her crew...
Santa Anna
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Lymington police that a small boat, the Santa Anna, had capsized off Hurst Castle. Efforts...