LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (7)
AUGUST 28TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A yacht had gone ashore on rocks under high cliffs, but the life-boat could not get to her, and her crew were rescued by the Freshwater coastguard life-saving apparatus, who were awarded the shield for...
J H Minet (Insurance)
IS YOUR CAPITAL EARNING THE HIGHEST INCOME IT CAN? IF NOT, WHY SETTLE for SECOND BEST? So many people give very little thought as to where their capital should be invested.
With inflation running at its present level,...
Category: Advertisement
Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick
Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick joined the crew in 1965, and was reserve mechanic from 1966 to 1967. He then served as mechanic until his appointment as coxswain/ mechanic in 1979.
Hewitt was awarded a bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (2)
GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...
Diadem and Dreadnaught
At 12.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Chief Officer of the Coastguard stating that o fishing-boats were unable to enter the harbour. As there was a very rough sea, and a strong southerly gale was blowing, it was...
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
Category: Articles
Margaret
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—On the 1st February, at 10.40 p.m., during a fresh breeze from S.E., signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. On the Lifeboat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeding to her, it was ascertained that a large flare...
Rescue By An Honorary Secretary
ON the afternoon of 1st July, in a southerly gale with a very heavy sea, a small yacht, with its owner on board, ran ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance to the channel. Councillor C. E. Tatham, Honorary Secretary of the Blackpool Branch...
Category: Articles
The Guillemot
ENGINES STOPPED AND SAILS BLOWN AWAY Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—After four fish- ing boats had gone out in the morning of the 1st of May, 1947, a strong off- shore wind sprang up. All the boats were dragging their trawls before the wind when the...
Lord Harewood
At 11 P.M.
on the 1st April the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had stranded on the Inner Binks. A N.W. to W. wind was blowing, with a rough ground sea.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...