LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arctic
Daring very thick weather, on the 23rd March, intelligence was received that a fishing-boat was aground on the N. side of the bar. A moderate gale was blowing from S.S.W., and the sea was rough. At 4.30 P.M., the Life-boat Andrew Pickard...
Annie
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—A signal of distress was shown by the schooner Annie, of Lancaster, which was about three miles E.N.E. of the harbour and drifting ashore, in a moderate gale from S.S.E., thick weather and a rough sea, on the 17th April....
Ken
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the 5th September two men and two women, visitors to Polruan, put out from Polruan in the hired motor boat Ken to go for a trip to the beach on the west side of Atlantic Bay. When the motor boat neared the beach a heavy...
Spanker
POBTMADOC, NOETH WALES.—At about 11.30 P.M., on the 6th of February, the Life-boat John Ashbury was launched, signals having been seen in the bay, during a strong S.S.W. wind and a heavy sea. She went in the direction of the light, which at...
Zuidland, of Rotterdam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood put out at 9.50 A.M. on the llth March for exercise, with the branch chairman, Lieut.- Commander H. K. Case, D.S.C., R.N.R.<...
Seamus Mason at the helm of Coventry and Warwickshire in April 2006, a few days before his retirement Photo: Nick Leach
Seamus Mason at the helm of Coventry and Warwickshire in April 2006, a few days before his retirement Photo: Nick Leach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
December (1)
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the mornmg of the 7th October, 1942, a military aeroplane crashed into the sea about four miles, N.N.W. of Girvan. The sea was calm, with a light westerly wind. The Fraserburgh motor fishing boat Primrose,...
Category: Services
Off Conway Castle
IN the Spring number there was a photograph of the Llandudno life-boat, off Conway Castle. This photograph was reproduced by very kind per- mission of the North Wales Weekly News, and we regret that no acknow- ledgment was made under the...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (1)
The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched shortly before 9 A.M. on the 28th March to the assistance of twenty-three of the fishing cobles, which had put to sea earlier in the morning for the purpose of hauling their crab pots. The wind was...
Proba
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February, the schooner Proba, of Bideford, whilst bound from Charlestown to London with a cargo of china clay stranded on the Brake Sands. Information of the casualty reached North Deal at 9.45 A.M.,...