LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (2)
The motor life- boat G.W. was launched in a strong S.W. breeze, with a rough sea, at noon on the 30th August, as a report had been received that a small boat to the N.E. of Moelfre Island was making signals of distress. The life-boat found...
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months September, October, and November, 1971
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND ILBs 1st September 1971 to 30th November 1971: Launches 1,535, lives saved 285 THE ACTIVE FLEET 138 station life-boats (as at 30/11/71) 36 inshore life-boats operating in the winter LIVES RESCUED 94...
Category: Services
Our Financial Position
IN our Annual Report published in May last special attention was drawn to the fact that during the year 1890 the Committee had been compelled to spend as much as 33,354?. 13s. 10d in excess of their ordinary income, and that they had been...
Category: Articles
Not Such a Catastrophe!
Not such a catastrophe! A black-tipped British shorthaired kitten named 'Oakley' shows great interest in the contents of the collecting box his owner Mike Evans, honorary secretary of Loughton and District branch, uses for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pilot Me II and the S.S. Arthur Wright
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 8th of January, 1956, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Pilot Me II, as the weather was worsening. The life-boat crew assembled, but at 6.30 the coast- guard rang...
A Hundred Years Ago
IT was mentioned in last year's Report that four life-boats, on the most recent construction, were building, and were about to be stationed on the coast of Northumberland; these boats, by the courtesy of the Lords Commissioners of the...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Motor Fishing Vessel Spectre and Nola
RED FLARES At 10.52 a.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a 45-foot boat towing a yacht had fired three or four red flares 250 yards off Elma Beach.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at ii a.m. in a...
The War Department Vessels Brigadier and Grey Lady
AUGUST 13TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 12.5 in the morning the King’s harbour master reported that men and a boat were marooned on the Rennie Rocks between the breakwater and the Mew Stone. They had been trying to salve a small...
The London Steamers Fulham III and Fulham VI
WEATHER-BOUND IN TORBAY Torbay, Devon.—During the morning of the 7th of January, 1948, officers of two London steamers, Fulham III and Fulham VI, weather-bound in Torbay while on passage in ballast to Barrv, had come ashore to buy provisions...
Scarborough- Mersey Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs
HRH The Duchess of Kent returns to harbour aboard Scarborough's new Mersey class Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs after the naming ceremony on 9 September.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs