LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary: Derek Calderwood
Man of Grace dies Derek Calderwood, former honorary curator of the Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh and tireless fundraiser for the RNLI has died.
Derek, curator of the museum from 1984 until 1995, was responsible for the...
Category: Obituaries
An American Flying Fortress
AUGUST 5TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.10 A.M. information was received from the resident naval officer at Berwick that an aeroplane was down in the sea off Berwick high lighthouse.
She was an American...
Boy Charlie
JANUARY 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee was launched for exercise in a N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea. As she returned to her moorings at about 3.30 P.M.
she saw...
The Three-Masted Motor Schooner Windermere, of Dublin
OCTOBER 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 11.20 in the morning the Carne coast life-saving service telephoned that a schooner was ashore at Churchtown, Carnsore Point. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog. The motor...
T. L. Devlin, of Granton
DECEMBER 19TH. ~ ABERDEEN. At 1.54 in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the steam trawler T. L.
Devlin, of Granton, had sprung a leak and needed help. A southerly gale was blowing, with heavy...
Three Brothers
FEBRUARY 11TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 9.30 at night the King’s harbour master telephoned that Portwrinkle coastguard had reported flashes. Further reports were received from other coastguards, but it was uncertain whether...
Cranmere, of Poole
NOVEMBER 6TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO.
DOWN. At 9.47 at night the Tara coastguard reported a vessel in distress in the entrance to Strangford Lough. A light northeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm, but it was very...
Her Last Service
Channel Island Lifeboat to go to Cowes, the Jersey boat could not get a crew and the Institution asked the Guernsey boat to fetch her, That was on the 28th. When the Guernsey boat arrived at St. Helier in the evening German aeroplanes were...
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Hands-on history of lifesaving
A 2-year interactive exhibition on search and rescue has opened at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth.
We’ve loaned the museum a B class lifeboat, a lifeguard all-terrain vehicle and a range of collection...
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The S.S. Boston Trader
FEBRUARY 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
Information was received through the coastguard at 12.15 P.M. that the lifeboat might be needed. Half a gale was blowing from the east, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick. Then...