LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Quixotic (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...
None (1)
JANUARY 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A red flare had been reported and men and women launchers worked hard and well in the darkness to get the life-boat down to the water through ten inches of snow, but she found nothing. -...
Carita (1)
APRIL 17TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5 P.M.. a message was received at Ramsey from the coastguard that an aeroplane had sighted a vessel showing distress signals about five miles to the southeast of Ramsey, and at 5.40 the...
April (1)
APRIL MEETING NORTH RONALDSHAY, ORKNEYS. On 3rd March, 1940, the Swedish vessel Lagaholm was attacked by German aeroplanes, and one of her boats, with thirteen of her crew, was seen off North Ronaldshay. A fresh westerly wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
Bar (1)
APRIL 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX, AND WALMER, KENT. The French trawler Bar had gone ashore near Beachy Head, but she refloated without help, and the Newhaven life-boat returned to her station. The trawler had been reported to Walmer as ashore...
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING PORT WEMYSS, ISLAY. The S.S. Agate, laden with coal and bound from Poole to Belfast, lost touch with her convoy during thick weather and ran ashore at Carn Point on the west coast of Islay at 4.30 in the morning of the 30th...
Category: Services
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING INCHCOLM ISLAND, FIFESHIRE. On the evening of the 15th of July, 1945, five men and women of the Services went out on pleasure in a naval dinghy intending to sail from Aberdour to Inchcolm. They started in calm weather, but...
Category: Services
Adrian (1)
JANUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 6.5 P . M .
a message was received from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a steamer, about five miles at sea, was making signals on her siren, but that they were not...
Irtysch (1)
BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...
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The smack Lucky Hit, of Lowestoft, after being driven on a sandbank, on 18th February, 1938, was taken in tow by a tug. She was sinking, and the Lowestoft motor life-boat rescued two of her crew. The other three remained on board, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs