LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sari Maris
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL FOUND IN FOG Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.15 on the evening of the 9th October, 1962, a customs officer was walking along the pier when he saw a flare being burnt in the direction of Splaugh...
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Victory and Sarah Ann
Holy Island, Northumberland.—About eight o'clock on the morning of the 21st of January, 1954, the life-boat coxswain reported that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar, and that he felt anxious for the safety of two fishing boats....
From Navy, Army and Air Force
IN 1938, in response to the Institution's appeals, the Navy contributed £343, the Army, £412, and the Air Force £303. This year the Navy, to which the appeal is made at the beginning of "the year, has contributed...
Category: Donations
La Jeune Fanny, of St Marlo
During a strong southerly wind and heavy rain, on the 14th De- cember, signal guns were heard from the lightship in the Prince's Channel. The Quiver No. 1 life-boat, stationed at Margate, was launched, and proceeded across the Margate...
The Relief Whitby Lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher
The relief Whitby lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher meets heavy seas as she goes to the aid of the MFV Sophie Louise, visible between her bow and the pier head, after the vessel's rudder had jammed while attempting to enter the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ada
TYNEMOTJTH.—The keteh Ada, of Harwich, bound from London, and laden with timber, was nearing the Tyne in a very high sea and very stormy weather on the evening of the 25th November, when she was struck by a heavy sea and her rudder carried...
Pennies May Not Rain from Heaven But Pound Notes Floated Down Just Outside Filey With a Little Help from a Helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topclif
Pennies may not rain from heaven but pound notes floated down just outside Filey, with a little help from a helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. Staff at the Topcliffe base had done a 44-mile... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ava
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.40 Ott the evening of the 19th of April, 1957^ the coastguard telephoned to say ft German tanker had reported a small vessel drifting near the East Shoebury buoy. At 8.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Boy Bob
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 5.15 P.M. on the 9th February, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that the local fishing boat Boy Bob had gone out early that day to haul her lines off Gardenstown,...