LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rosslare Harbour Crew
In the centre: Mr. W. J. B. Moncas (Honorary Secretary) and Coxswain James Wickham.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Coble Sheila
DECEMBER 6TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the local motor fishing coble Sheila became overdue. A northwesterly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm, but it was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to...
Loss of Thurso Life-Boat and Boathouse
ON the morning of Monday, the 10th of December, 1956, the Thurso life- boat, Dunnet Head (Civil Service No.
31) and the life-boathouse were totally destroyed by fire. The fire was first noticed shortly after seven...
Category: Articles
Three Brothers
FEBRUARY 11TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 9.30 at night the King’s harbour master telephoned that Portwrinkle coastguard had reported flashes. Further reports were received from other coastguards, but it was uncertain whether...
The Tamar Hits the Water During Her Slipway Trials at Tenby's New Boathouse Slipway.
The Tamar hits the water during her slipway trials at Tenby's new boathouse and slipway. The old slipway and boathouse can be seen in the background Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trawler in trouble
2 October 2012: RNLI lifeboats from Tynemouth, Blyth and Cullercoats mounted a joint operation to bail out a sinking trawler. Tynemouth Crew Member Ian Black entered the engine room of the badly listing vessel,...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.
He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...
Category: Obituaries
Mountbatten of Burma
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Spectator, of Whitby
On the same day the barque Spectator, of Whitby, was ob- served from Yarmouth to part from her cables, and after coming into collision with another vessel, to drive in the direc- tion of the Scroby Sands. The Mark Lane life-boat went off...
St. Jan Berchmans
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.53 on the night of the 24th of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel St.
Jan Berchmans, of Ostend, with a crew of ten, had broken down. The inlet...