LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yacht Saladin
Dover, Kent.—At about 12.45 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, morse signals were seen from a yacht. The night was very stormy, with a whole S.E. gale and very rough sea. While the life-boat crew were assembling a man from the cutter yacht Saladin,...
A Motor Boat
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—On the 15th of August, 1949, an officer of the Irish Army and a priest, who were on holiday, went out from Drogheda in a motor boat. About four in the after- noon the engine broke down, the boat anchored, and the...
Polly
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 15th July a telephone message was received by the coastguard that a vessel was drifting to the westward with a signal of distress flying, and asking for the assistance of the Newquay...
Ansgar
Shortly before midnight on the 13-14th February a messenger reported that a vessel was ashore opposite Ardross Castle, half a mile east of Elie. It was blowing a S.S.W. gale with a heavy sea running.
The crew of the...
Annual Awards 1976
The Maud Smith Bequest for the bravest lifesaving act by a lifeboatman in 1976 has been made to Crew Member Glyn Roberts of Porthdinllaen for the rescue, last August, of two boys who were trapped on the cliffs. Glyn Roberts climbed almost...
Category: Awards
Boats Leaving the Discovery During the Boat Race from Albert Bridge to Teddington Lock Organised By the East London Dart League In Conjunction With a Fund-Raising Co
Boats leaving the Discovery during the boat race from Albert Bridge to Teddington Lock organised by the East London Dart League in conjunction with a fund-raising competition to guess the time of the winning boat. The lower photograph shows... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Turpin
James Turpin, coxswain of Fowey lifeboat until his retirement in 1978. He joined the crew in 1938, becoming coxswain in 1959. In 1977 he was awarded the BEM for services to the RNLI..
Category: Obituaries
Seaflower
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.30 on the night of the 1st of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Seaflower, which had left Flotta for Houton with a crew of three was overdue, and at 9.45 the life-boat J.J.K.S.W....
A Norwegian Vessel
A ship was seen with a signal of distress flying about half a mile to the eastward of this place on the 11th Jan., and the Life-boat at once proceeded off to her through a heavy ground sea, when she was found to be a Norwegian vessel of 134...
Arrow Belle
During the forenoon of the 19th January, the schooner Arrow Belle, of Aberystwith, bound from Glen- dower to Greenock, but then at anchor in the Bay of Dublin, parted from her cables and drove ashore near North Bull. A strong gale from the S...