LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blakeney Dawn
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY LIGHTVESSEL The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-south-east of the Scar...
A Steamer (16)
MARCH 9TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
A steamer had been in collision a mile east of Heugh Light and had sunk, but the twentythree survivors were picked up from their own boats by another vessel. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..<...
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 12TH. SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards. £7 10s..
A Steamer (16)
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CAISTER, NORFOLK.
A steamer had been reported to be on fire after striking a mine, but a trawler had picked up five survivors and nothing else was found but some wreckage. -...
An Aeroplane (16)
FEBRUARY 12TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £17 10s.
A Steamer (16)
DECEMBER 25TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. A steamer was on fire, but a trawler had gone to her help. - Rewards, £10 8s. 6d.
Life-Boat Exhibitions In 1938
THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.
Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items...
Category: Articles
(Top) Visitors Swarm Aboard 17-24,
(top) Visitors swarm aboard 17-24, a new Trent class which was un-named at the time but which will become Dora Foster McDougall and be allocated to the relief fleet. Astern of her was the Severn 17-11, The Whiteheads which will be allocated... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May
Launches 31 Lives rescued 16 MAY 2ND. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
During the evening the French fishing vessel L’Appel-de-Lemar, while on passage from Newlyn to Fleetwood, with a crew of five, grounded on St. Bernard’s Wharf...
Category: Services
Coxswain Andrew Cunningham, of Crail
Coxswain Andrew Cunningham, of Crail, Fifeshire, who died on 15th De- cember, 1931, had been an officer of the Life-boat for twenty-seven years. In 1892, at the age of twenty-nine, he was appointed Bowman. Three years later he became second...
Category: Obituaries