LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Humber
THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE On the 12th February, 1940, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Gurth, of Grimsby.
COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS was awarded the gold medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC JOHN...
Category: Medals
Campbeltown: the Dedication of the 52Ft Arun Walter and Margaret Couper Photograph By Courtesy of 'The Campbeltown Courier'
Campbeltown: The dedication of the 52ft Arun Walter and Margaret Couper. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'The Campbeltown Courier'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Westcliffe Hall
FEBRUARY 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that German aeroplanes had dropped bombs and later that a vessel was reported to be firing red flares. At 3.50 the No. 1 motor life-boat...
The S.S. Windsor Queen
Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
A Book on the Life-Boats In the War
The story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939 to 1945 is told in "Storm on the Waters" by Mr. Charles Vinc«, publicity secretary of the Institution.
It will be published on December i6th by Messrs....
Category: Articles
The S.S. Glenpark
Shortly after noon on the 18th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress on the Holm Sands. The weather was fine at the time, with a light S.W. breeze blowing and a smooth sea, but, as it was feared that she would not be...
Angler's Luck
Eastbourne, and Newhaven, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 27th of September; 1953, during thick fog, a steamer wirelessed that the motor boat Angler's Luck, with a crew of two, three miles off Beachy Head had asked her...
Wimpie and the Barges Glenrosa, Maid of Munster and Audrey
Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), rescued two men from the yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and three men from the barge...
The Eastbourne Life-Boat Returning from Service on December 8th
The Eastbourne Life-Boat Returning From Service On December 8Th. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dowsing Lightvessel
DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 7th January, 1963, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth informed the coxswain superintendent that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel had been...