LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mexico
LYTHAM.—On the night of the 9th December, signals of distress having been Been, the Life-boat, Charles Biggs, was launched at 10 o'clock, and proceeded under sails and oars some distance to windward; she was then taken under oars across...
Donside
FIVE ATTEMPTS TO REFLOAT GROUNDED M.F.V.
Stromness, Orkneys. At 9.25 on the evening of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Kirkwall coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Donside of Aberdeen...
Otto H.
Cromer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 2.25 A.M. on the 27th December, 1938, as information had been received from the coastguard that the 2,100 ton Finnish steamer Otto H, of Pori, was aground at Eccles, between...
Tommy Dawson,
September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland lifeboat. Tommy first became a ere w member at North Sunderland in 1927, where in 1939 he became bowman. In 1951 he was appointed second coxswain and in 1955 was appointed coxswain, a...
Category: Obituaries
The Princess Royal Hrh the Princess Anne
The Princess Roval, HRH the Princess Anne meets pupils from the Clerkenwell Parochial School, dressed in authentic Victorian costume, at the launching of the Grace Darling Appeal, intended to raise enough money for a new lifeboat for North... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crucial Skills
More than 90 people from all over Britain attended a highly successful sea safety weekend at The Lifeboat College, Poole, in March this year. Organised in conjunction with Practical Boat Owner magazine, the weekend was the first of its kind.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sunstar
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the evening of the 9th August the coastguard reported that St. Nicholas light-vessel was firing distress signals for a small yacht ashore in a dangerous position on Scroby Sands. A...
Kelly and Anja, Cogneto and a Cabin Yacht
Four calls SHOEBURYNESS COASTGUARD sighted a fishing boat off West Shoebury Beacon exhibiting a distress signal at 1550 on Monday, June 6, 1977. The auto-klaxon to Southend-on-Sea ILB boathouse was sounded and the duty crew prepared to...
The S.S. Ethel Radcliffe and the S.S. Corrie
APRIL 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.30 P.M.
an officer of the Great Yarmouth naval base asked the life-boat coxswain if the life-boat could take some men off a vessel. She was the S.S. Ethel Radcliffe...
Peace and Angostura
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft...