LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Purple Heather
DEC. 23RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 7 P.M. the coastguard reported the motor trawler Purple Heather, of Lowestoft, ashore at Corton. The weather was very cold and foggy, with a heavy ground swell and a southwesterly breeze....
Strathalford
APRIL 3 0 T H . - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.10 A.M. information was received that a vessel was in distress on the North side of Wick Bay. A fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat City of...
Feature: a Rookie's Life
Regular readers of theLifeboat will know that the RNLI takes training very seriously. But there are some things in life that no amount of training can prepare you for. We follow 26-year-old Alison Panes as she takes us through her first few...
Category: Articles
Telegraphic Communication With Lightships
IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...
Category: Articles
Voices
voices Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery Have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was...
Category: Articles
Angus Rose and Mizpah (1)
Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...
Trevor England
MARCH 1995 Trevor England BEM, coxswain of Padstow lifeboat from 1978 to 1993. Trevor first joined the crew in 1957, served as second coxswain from 1969 to 1970 and was second coxswain/ assistant mechanic from 1970 until his appointment as...
Category: Obituaries
Torbay
TORBAY, DEVON On the 17th December, 1944, the Torbay life-boat rescued the crew of fourteen of the tug Empire Alfred, and the crew of five of yard craft 345.
COXSWAIN FREDERICK C. SANDERS was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
The Ex-German Yacht Pirol
JUNE 25TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned a report from the east pier watchman that, the ex-German yacht Pirol, which had left harbour for Portsmouth, manned by five R.A.F. men, had grounded on the Brake...
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 1 Lives rescued 4 VALENTIA, Co. KERRY. The auxiliary broken down. A strong east-south-east wind rescue-boat, St. Bernard, was returning to harbour on the night of the 22nd of May, was then blowing and the sea was rough.
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Category: Services