LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dawn Anne and a Dinghy
Capsized dinghy ON THE AFTERNOON of Wednesday May 11, 1983, both lifeboats stationed at Eastbourne were launched to help the fishing vessel Dawn Anne, in difficulties with a broken fuel line 1 '/2 miles east of the lifeboat station; she...
Fond farewell to volunteering trio
Having given almost two-thirds of a century to the RNLI between them, three Scottish volunteers are retiring this year. After clocking up 14 years (and 6,625 nautical miles), Peter ‘Ped’ McKinnon is retiring from his role as full-time...
Category: Articles
A Barge
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—31st March. A barge had gone ashore on Shoeburyness Sands, but got off without help and went on her way.
—Rewards, Southend, £17 5s.; Clacton, £16 10s..
A Trawler
FEBRUARY 5TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A trawler had been attacked by German aeroplanes, with bombs and machineguns, but the life-boat found nothing, and the Coningbeg Lightship reported that the trawler had gone on her way....
A Schooner
FEBRUARY 7TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
A schooner had been reported drifting with all her sails gone, but she was found to be using her auxiliary engine with her masts bare. - Rewards, £9 18s..
A Steamer
JANUARY 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CLOUGHEY, AND NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. A steamer had gone ashore. The life-boats searched in the fog without finding her, for she had got off and had gone on her way to Belfast. - Rewards :...
Prince Charles Had a Word for Everyone Bill Adams Extreme Right and Tom Nutman Dl (Scotland North) Fifth from Right Photograph By Courtesy of Daily Express
Prince Charles had a word for everyone . . .
Bill Adams, extreme right, and Tom Nutman, Dl (Scotland, north), fifth from right.
photograph by courtesy of Daily Express . . . and accepted an invitation to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel The Belle Isle
.— On Sunday, the 19th Jan., the Belle Isle, of Shoreham, was • totally lost on the Sizewell Bank during a strong gale. The Belle Isle having sunk in deep water, the crew took to their boat, • and after drifting about in imminent peril...
Notes of the Quarter
Two life-boats 70- foot in length, which will be larger than any at present in the Institution's service, are to be built by Messrs. Yarrow and Company Ltd.
in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Both will be constructed in steel, one...
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A Pontoon
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the morning, on the 17th of September, 1950, it was reported that a boat was drifting out to sea from the Helford River. At 8.15 the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched, in a heavy sea with...