LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Joachim
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.30 p.m. on 18th October, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the French trawler St. Joachim was proceeding to Spurn with an injured man on board. The help of the life-boat was asked for to...
Lady Dalhousie
POBTHOUSTOCK, COXSWAIN,.—At midnight on the 13th April, during a strong breeze from the N.E., the weather at the same time being hazy, it was reported that a large steamer had struck on the Manacles Boots. The Mary Ann Storey Life-boat...
Inaugural Ceremony of the Weymouth Motor Lifeboat
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Weymouth Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July on the Nothe Parade, in the presence of many hundreds of people. The Motor Life-boat from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was also present.
This is...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat Helper Killed on Slipway
MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...
Category: Articles
Ben Hebden
TANKER REFLOATED WITH HELP OF LIFE-BOAT Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.20 on the morning of the 16th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was aground between Birling Gap and Belle Toute.
At...
Verbania and The Coal Hulk Black Miner
AP R I L 1 S T - 2 N D . - S T O R N O W A Y , ISLAND OF LEWIS. During the forenoon of the 1st April, a strong easterly wind sprang up increasing to a whole gale, with a rough sea. The harbour was very congested with vessels taking shelter....
Services of Life-Boats
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 12th December, 1858, the French lugger Louise Amelie got embayed and was driven on shore near Newcastle in a heavy gale from S.S.E.- The life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at...
Category: Services
Coxswain Albert Spurgeon of Lowestoft
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON, of Lowestoft, who died on the 5th of April, 1953, at the age of 73, had been one of the Institution's most distin- guished coxswains. According to the local records he joined the life-boat crew in his teens, and...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Charlus, of Sunderland
DECEMBER 14TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.45 in the morning the coastguard reported white rockets at Bullers of Buchan, about four miles to the south of Peterhead. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a...