LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rahoneen
Girvan, Ayrshire. At six o'cJock on the evening of the llth of September, 1958, the coastguard at Portpatrick told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard by the coastguard at Kildonan. After further enquiries the life-boat...
Avis
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 10.15 on the night of the 9th of August, 1959, the owner of the yacht Avis told the honorary secretary that the yacht, which had two men on board, was over- due on passage from Beaumaris to Knott End,...
Admiral Cunninghame Graham
It is with deep regret that we have to record the death on February 14 of Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, KBE CB.
After a distinguished naval career embracing active service in two world wars and ending with the...
Category: Obituaries
The Admiralty Tug Seaman
MARCH 2ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
The Admiralty tug Seaman put out from Montrose with a battle target in tow and the life-boat coxswain on board as pilot. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The...
Alcide
The schooner Alcide, of Dunkirk, stranded in the East Bay, Dungeness, soon after I A.M. on the 28th February, but as she made no signals she was not seen. At 7 A.M. the vessel was observed, and a tug pro- ceeded to her and towed her into...
May Flower
On Sunday evening, 9th March, at about half-past six o'clock, the pilots on the look-out discovered a small steamer to the S. of the harbour. A heavy gale from S.S.E. was blowing at the time, and the sea was rapidly increasing. The...
Salvage of Property By the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
THE Committee of this Institution have found it necessary to reconsider the question regarding payments to their Life-boats' Crews, after they have rendered important assistance in saving property as well as lives, and accordingly the...
Category: Committee
Two Steamers
Peterhead.—At 2 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd April Coxswain Cameron received a telephone message from the Coastguards stating that some vessels were firing rockets and burning flares in South Bay for assistance as they were in...
Death of a Famous Coxswain
COXSWAIN JOHN T. SWAN, of Lowes- toft, one of the most distinguished of English life-boatmen, died on 20th February, at the age of eighty-three.
He was coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat from 1911 to 1924, when he retired...
Category: Obituaries
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles