LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Belgian Fishing Boats
On the loth October several Belgian fishing-boats were bound for Lowestoft with Belgian refugees on board, when two of the boats grounded on the Newcome Sands.
As the sea was rough, the Coxswain, John Swan, of the Life-boat...
A Steamer
At 2.30 A.M. on the 5th March the Barry Coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore about three miles west of Barry Island, and in need of assistance. The Life-boat John Wesley was launched and in tow of a pilot-vessel proceeded to the...
The Motor Yawl Falcon
At 1.30 A.M. on the morning of the 14th January, the police informed the Coastguard that the motor yawl Falcon, of Broughty Ferry, was adrift somewhere in the Tay with fifteen men on board. She had left Tayport at 10 P.M. the previous...
Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon
On the morning of 12th May, a moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Three local fishing boats—Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon—were at sea, and as it was seen that they could only cross the harbour bar at a big risk, it was...
Silver Line & Star of Hope
On the 15th July the local fishing cobles put out early in the morning to haul their crab pots, but were overtaken by bad weather, and all returned to harbour except two, the Silver Line and the Star of Hope. A moderate N. breeze was...
Lollipop
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 10th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Lollipop from Caldy Island, with ten persons on board, was drifting, with a rope round her pro- peller, near rocks...
Robin
LOBSTER BOAT AIDED Stromness, Orkneys. At 4.20 a.m.
on 24th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the lobster boat Robin of Kirkwall on passage to Stromness was overdue. At 4.45 the life-boat Archibald and...
Cover Picture
One of Weston-super-Mare's two inshore lifeboats is an 18' 6" McLachlan. Designed byJ.A. McLachlan ofG. L. Watson and Co., Glasgow, she is built of glass reinforced plastic and has a ragged chine. With twin inboard petrol... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
R.N.L.I. Horse Show
The annual horse show at Claygate, Surrey, which is known as the 'R.N.L.I. horse show' and is now one of the biggest shows in Surrey, will take place in June. Through Mr. John Bullock, a director of the Chrysler Motor Group, the...
Category: Articles
Mona
At 2.19 a.m. on I3th July, 1966, a red flare had been reported about three miles offshore in an easterly direction. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 2.45 in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...