LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Conqueror
The smack, Conqueror, of and for Newburgh, from Sunderland, with coal, in attempting to enter the port at midnight on the 24th November, went ashore at the south side of the entrance to the harbour. A small steam-tug went to her assistance,...
Humber- North Division
Humber's Arun class lifeboat lies afloat off the tip of Spurn Point, the most southerly fragment of Yorkshire, where the Number joins the turbulent North Sea.
It is the only station with a full-time crew - the members... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Jeannette
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 7.52 A.M.
on the 10th March the coastguard reported that the s.s. Jeannette, of Rotterdam, bound for Coleraine with a cargo of chemical manure, had been holed in trying to enter River Bann, and was...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 4.58 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, i960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at the north end of Ballard Down near Old Harry Rocks. Police and...
Island Belle
On the 21st December, at 6 A.M., the brig Island Bdle, of Guernsey, bound from Wilmington to Bristol, drove ashore near the entrance to this harbour. It was at the time blowing hard from the west- ward, with a heavy sea running. The Bude...
Fishing Cobles (2)
On the 13th February, at 1.30 P.M., Coxswain Webster reported that seven cobles were at sea to the N.W. and that a strong wind, blowing from the E.S.E., would make it difficult for them to return. The Life-boat James Gowland was, therefore,...
Murray Walker
VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...
Category: Articles
Percy Garon MC GM : Honorary Secretary of Southend-On-Sea Lifeboat Station from 1952-1975
THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .
they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...
Category: Articles
Eureka
SEPT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At about 4.10 A.M. it was reported that a vessel was showing distress signals about one and a half miles south of Walton Pier. The weather was clear with a strong breeze. The sea was rather rough. The...
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NOVEMBER 13TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 10.15 in the morning it was learned from the local doctor that a woman suffering from severe gastric troublemust be taken at once to hospital. As no steamer would run for two days...