LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Coxswain's Memories of His First Service
Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
Category: Services
Suzette
JULY 11TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
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Scarlet Buccaneer
Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class lifeboat have been awarded the RNLI's...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishing- cobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off...
Category: Services
Fast Lady
Fast first for Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Brighton - South East Division Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Graham Hillier and Tony Cater found herself on service very promptly after arriving at the station on 21 July.
The...
A Motor Life-Boat's Trip of 669 Miles
THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Boat Idle Hour
JUNE 28TH. - NEW QUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.
At 4 P.M. the crew and helpers had assembled for an exercise launch when the small sailing boat Idle Hour, of New Quay, with a crew of two, was seen drifting to the east of the harbour...
The Lizard Life-Boat Station
WE feel sure that the accompanying illustration will prove of interest to our readers. It is a photograph taken on the occasion of the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York to the Lizard Life-boat, which was...
Category: Articles
North Britain, of Southampton
.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...