LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Westminsterbrook
Life-boat 70-001 at Clovelly, Devon - On the night of 8th February, 1967, the watchman on board the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) was asked by the coxswain to keep a look-out for a ship's boat from the motor vessel...
A Dinghy
CABIN CRUISER FOUND AGROUND IN RIVER Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was adrift in a small rubber dinghy off Carnoustie. The life-boat The Robert was...
Mahelah
APRIL 22ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.20 P.M. the Skeldon Hill coastguard telephoned that a barge half a mile away was flying a signal. The weather had been foggy, with a strong easterly wind blowing and a moderate sea,...
Breadwinner (1)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary at Hastings telephoned the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat to ask if any of the local boats had seen the fishing boat...
Cromer's New Tyne Class Lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II
Cromer's new Tyne class lifeboat, Ruby and Arthur Reed II.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services from Page 157
and Coxswain Jack headed out towards Bell Rock. A few minutes later, when clear of the bar, the coxswain handed over to the second coxswain, who had injured his ankle and, as he was unable to get an answer on the intercom, went below to...
Category: Services
Reading's Successful Year
30 Old Subscribers Lost. 42 New Subscribers Found.
IN sending to the Institution a cheque for £419, being the contribution from the Reading Branch for the Branch year which ended on 30th September, Mr.
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Category: Branches
Quest and Dennis
AUGUST 11TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the morning a message was sent to the coxswain that the weather was very bad and that several fishing cobles were out. He went to the station and found that most of the fishing boats...
Ben Meidie (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...
Richard Davies, Coxswain of Cromer Lifeboat
I Richard Da vies, coxswain of Cromer lifeboat, first joined the crew in 1962 and then served as second coxswain from 1975 until his appointment as coxswain in 1976. Richard was also a crew member of the station's inshore lifeboat from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs