LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Davenport
May Meeting.
Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks,...
Scotland Community News
MACDUFF
SQUAREMEN SUPPORT
Ye Corporation O' Squaremen are supporting 17 local causes this year, and the volunteers at Macduff Lifeboat Station are delighted to be
one of those causes. A...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boat at Boulogne
IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
Category: Articles
The 52-Foot Arun Class Prototype Life-Boat During Her Thames Visit and (Below), Staff Coxswain R. Harding Working the Decca Super 101 Radar Which She Carries.
The 52-foot Arun class prototype life-boat during her Thames visit and (below), Staff Coxswain R. Harding working the Decca Super 101 radar which she carries.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (2)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
The 35ft Pilot Cutter Leslie H.
Storm tow TORBAY DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY saw the 35ft pilot cutter Leslie H leaving Brixham Harbour at 1145 on Sunday, February 19, 1978. The weather was so bad that he immediately became concerned for her safety and alerted the...
Fire at Sea
'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn. - View image in PDF
with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24 August.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Yacht
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat anchored off Colne Point was dragging her anchor and showing a distress signal at the mast-head. The...
The Ex-Naval Motor Vessel 1503
DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
The Ex-Naval Motor Vessel 1503 (1)
DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...