LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain James Chisholm, of St. Andrews, Fifeshire
James Chisholm, ex-Coxswain of St.
Andrews, died on the 14th March last, at the age of 81. He had served as Second Coxswain from 1887 until 1892, and as Coxswain from 1892 until 1920, when he retired at the age of 71, and...
Category: Obituaries
Letters
Welcome! Between the crew of Cromer lifeboat station and our station Ijmuiden a friendship has flourished for some years. This culminated in a visit of our lifeboat Johanna Louisa to Cromer from May 8 until May 11.
The...
Category: Correspondence
Launches of Life-boats and Lives Rescued
Life-boats were launched to ships in distress 3,760 times. Of these launches 2,212 were to ships in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war. Life-boats rescued 6,376 lives..
Category: Services
Millom Castle
Plymouth, Devon.—The Motor Life- boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 9.5 P.M. on the 27th October to the help of the ketch Millom Castle, of Plymouth. A strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy and confused sea, and the...
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Category: Advertisement
The Converted Ship’s Life-Boat Harriett
JULY 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
About eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a sailing boat flying a distress signal two miles south-south-west of Clacton pier. A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and...
The Dutch Fishing Smack Nooit Polmakt
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
The Ex-Naval Pinnace Julia Fisher
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 7.14 p.m. on gth September, 1966, a fishing boat, apparently with engine trouble, was noticed approximately half a mile north north west of the Sunk lightvessel.
A further message reported...
A Tank Landing Craft
NOVEMBER 6TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
A tank landing craft had gone ashore, but the water was too shallow for the lifeboat to get near. Eventually the crew of the landing craft were able to walk ashore.- Rewards, £17...