LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, of Cardigan
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.
He retired in 1920 on account...
Category: Obituaries
Councillor Ex-Provost Milne
Councillor Ex-Provost Milne of the Royal Burgh of Queensferry, chairman of Queensferry lifeboat station for 15 years..
Category: Obituaries
The Sailing Boat Sarah
Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mike Smith, a Tunbridge Wells teacher and a member of the Long Distance Walkers Association, 'pushed out the boat' for the RNLI when the Mayor set him off on a 170-mile sponsored walk from Tunbridge Wells to Weymouth. Mike was...
Category: Articles
Gustaf
CRESSWELL.—At 2 A.M. on the 5th January, during a gale at S.E., the steamer Gustaf, of Gothenburg, in Sweden, was wrecked in Dunridge Bay, near Cresswell, on the coast of Northumberland. On the lights of the vessel being observed, the crew...
The Motor Drifter Yankee Girl
JAN. 2ND. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
At 8 P.M. the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light.
A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The S.S. Innisfallen...
L'Espoir and Innocence
Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...
Imp
Just before 1 P.M.
on the 26th April a man told members of the life-boat crew that a small boat was drifting out to sea and the only occupant was waving for help. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing and the sea was rough....
Vesper
Whitehills, Banffshire.—On the afternoon of the 14th April it was learned that the motor fishing boat Vesper, of Fraserburgh, was running for shelter and heading towards Macduff. She had previously been warned away from Fraserburgh and...
Little Culverden
Hastings, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 8.17 A.M. on the 18th November t6 search for the local open fishing boat Little Culverden, which was missing. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...