LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pelton
JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The No. 1 life-boat H. F. Bailey was at Gorleston, where she had put in after a service. While she was there news was received that a vessel was being attacked by enemy aircraft in Yarmouth...
Rabbit
Margate, Kent. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized and her crew of two were in the water one mile off Birchington. Ten minutes...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Frederick Swarts, of Barry Dock, who has been coxswain since the 1st April, 1956. For nearly ten years before that he was second coxswain.
Since he became a boat's officer...
Category: Articles
Emmeline, of Bourdeux
The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
Fitz's Flyer
Four rescued HEARING, soon after 1300 on Sunday December 14, 1980, that a yacht firing red flares had been reported off Eastoke Head, Hayling Island, Crew Member Frank Dunster together with Trevor Pearce, a shore helper and first aider, and...
Cygnet
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 oil the evening of the 10th of July, 1950, a report was received that the sailing dinghy Cygnet was in a dangerous position, with two people on board waving for help. Sixteen minutes later the life-boat The Cuttle...
Obituary
WE regret to record the death, at the end of last September, of the Rev. R.
W. PEKIIY CIRCUITT, Vicar of Brixham since 1900, and Honorary Secretary of the Brixham and Paignton Branch of the Institution for the past fifteen...
Category: Obituaries
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles
A Canberra Aircraft
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
Ardency
Eleven men and fishing vessel saved In winds gusting to 90 knotsA difficult service in winds up to almost 90 knots earned coxswain / mechanic Hewitt Clark of the Lerwick lifeboat a Bronze Medal, recognising his leadership, seamanship and...