LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailboard
Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board, unable to reach...
‘Dance Your Cares Away’ With These Fraggle Rock Character Keyrings
‘Dance your cares away’ with these Fraggle Rock character keyrings, available from Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) branches during november. Photo: Laura Wiltshire. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...
Bronze Medals for Two Scottish Coxswains. St. Andrews, Fifeshire and Thurso, Caithness-Shire
St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.
Two gallant services were carried out by Life-boats in Scotland during March., one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and the other by the...
Category: Medals
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th OCTOBER, 1908.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., O.M.G., in the Chair.
Colonel Fitzroy CLAYTON, V.P., who for the last twenty-five years had been the Deputy Chairman, was unanimously appointed...
Category: Committee
William, of Carnarvon
On the 29th Oct., 1868, during a hard gale, a smack, which was riding heavily in a danger- ous position outside the roadstead, hoisted a signal of distress. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was launched, and proceeded out, when it was found...
Arbitrator
IBKLAXD, — As the trawling smack Arbitrator, of Wexford, was proceeding to the fishing-ground at about 8 A.M, on the 13th November she struck on the bar, and began to leak heavily, She hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the...
Glynn
HAVLE, CORNWALL.-—The brigantine Glynn, of Plymouth, while running for Hayle, during a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the llth September, struck the bar and remained fast, the sea making a clean breach over her. The crew...
A Dandy Rigged Fishing Boat Star of Hope
On the 13th October, the No. 1 Lifeboat Edward BirTsbeck put off at 6 A.M., during a moderate to strong gale from the N,, and a heavy sea, a vessel having been observed ashore about two miles N.of Winterton. On reaching the vessel she was...
Caroline (1)
IRVINE.—On the 26th February signals of distress were shown by the barquentine Caroline, of Belfast, which had stranded on the north perch at the entrance to Irvine Harbour. The Life-boat Buebie put off to her assistance at 9 P.M., a strong...