LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Aeroplanes
APRIL 20TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that two aeroplanes were in the sea, and that one airman had come down by parachute, and at 2.10 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service...
Eibhlin Og
JANUARY 1 2TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. Five local fishing boats were several miles out, line-fishing, and as a strong breeze got up from the S.W. four of them returned a t 2 P . M . The wind increased, the sea became very...
Marazion - South Division
Like a giant sand castle, the picturesque granite island of St Michael's Mount rises 100m from the waters of Mount's Bay capped with a real 14th century castle.
The causeway, which is revealed at low tide, connects... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Seine Net Fishing Vessel Quest
JUNE. 10TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 11.30 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that they had been watching a vessel since 6 P.M.
She was under sail, but making little headway, and appeared to be flying a...
Two Salvage Lighters
NOVEMBER 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 2.50 in the afternoon, the Admiralty salvage officer at Bangor reported, through the coastguard, that two salvage lighters, with crews on board, were drifting ashore in Belfast...
Robert and Jane
DECEMBER 2lST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The fishing coble Robert and Jane, of Newbiggin, with a crew of three, was the only coble to put out on this day, and as the sea rose, with a strong south-south-east wind, anxiety...
The Lobster Motor Fishing Boat St. Mary’s
MAY 19TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
At midnight on the 18th the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Stornoway coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties, with her engine broken down....
An American Fortress Aeroplane (4)
JUNE 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that an American Fortress aeroplane had crashed in the sea to the south-east. The life-boatmen had already seen a parachute coming down. A light westerly wind was...
Samanco, of Liverpool
JANUARY 18TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 10.20 at night a message was received from the coastguard at Bangor that a vessel was in distress west of Wilson’s Point, Belfast Lough. A whole north-east gale was blowing, with...
The Longshore Fishing Boat Unity, of Lowestoft and Another Boat
APRIL 29TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 4.20 in the afternoon it was reported by fishing boats returning from the fishing grounds that the engines of two other boats had broken down off Southwold. A northnorth- west gale was...