LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of Two Welsh Trawlers. Six Awards for Gallant Service
IN the early morning of 14th February, with a heavy sea running, a Welsh steam-trawler, the Tenby Castle, went ashore on the rocks in Clifden Bay, Con- nemara, on the west of Ireland, a coast where there are many rocky islands, the great...
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Car- narvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...
Category: Services
Juan Ferrer
CLUNG TO WRECKAGE Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.
At 2.58 a.m. on 23rd October, 1963, the coastguard at St. Just was informed by Land's End radio that a Spanish vessel had gone aground near Mount's...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day,...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
Painting the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN order to insure regularity in painting the life-boats of the Institution, and the use of the best description of paint, its Committee have decided on forwarding the requisite supply of paint, each year, direct from the...
Category: Articles
Battle in the bay
When a teenage boy found himself caught in a tidal backwash, his friends watched in horror – could anyone reach him before it was too late?
On 7 September the 13-year-old was playing with his...
Category: Articles
Blanket for a Life-Boat
Two little girls of Withernsea, aged thirteen and eleven, have sent a blanket, which they had made themselves, to Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station, to be used in the life-boat..
Category: Articles
A beautiful morning
This view of the Cornish sunrise was taken from Penlee’s Severn class lifeboat Ivan Ellen on 12 October 2008. The crew were returning to shore with a 15m fishing vessel in tow. The Sowenna had suffered steering failure 5 miles south of her...
Category: Articles
A Whaler from H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki
Weymouth, Dorset. At 3.8 on the afternoon of the 6th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a whaler from H.M.N.Z.S.
Taranaki, with three men aboard, hadcapsized in the middle of Portland harbour...