LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
Category: Services
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: MAY 1995 Sam Baxter MBE, honorary life president of Morecambe & Heysham financial branch.
Serving as honorary secretary of Morecambe lifeboat station from 1967 to 1978...
Category: Obituaries
Cresting the Waves:
Cresting the waves: Ms magnificent photograph of the St Peter Port lifeboat Sir William Arnold was sent to THF. LIFEBOAT by Guernsey photographer Brian Green and shows the IV73-buill 52ft Arun in full cry, with Coxswain Peter Bisson at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (6)
MAY 19TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A fishing boat from Worthing had not returned when expected. Her engine had broken down, but she made port unaided.
- Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
An R.A.F. Pinnace
OCTOBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. An R.A.F. pinnace had foundered and her crew had taken to their small boat, but they were rescued by H.M.S. Lochiel a few minutes before the arrival of the life-boat. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..<...
Fishing Cobles (2)
RUNSWICK.—The Margaret and Edward Life-boat put off to the aid of several of the fishing-cobles belonging to this port which had been overtaken by a gale on the 2nd April. The Life-boat remained out two hours, and rendered important service...
A Trawler (1)
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—10th January.
A trawler had been wrecked off Ardbeg and had foundered in fifteen minutes. Four of her crew were lost, but nine scrambled on to rocks, from which eight were rescued by a steamer...
When the Yacht Melfort Went Aground
When the acht Melfort went aground in Derby Haven, Isle of Man. on May 17. 1981.
coastguards successfully took off one man bv breeches buoy while two crew members from Port St Mary's Arun stood by the lifeboat's Y... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Doris Maddrell,
October 1996 Mrs Doris Maddrell, President of Port Erin ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Maddrell was founder member of the guild and held the offices of chairman and vice chairman between 1964 and 1992, becoming president in...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (56)
JULY 29TH. - RAMSEY, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN An aeroplane had been reported to Ramsey as having fallen into the sea six miles S.W. of Burrow Head, and the Ramsey life-boat was launched, as the Kirkcudbright life-boat was off service. At Peel...