LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Samuel Cunningham
Coxswain Samuel Cunningham, who died at his home at the age of 54 on 3rd June, 1964, had a dual role which was unique in Ulster. He was former coxswain of the Portrush life-boat and was also town clerk of Portrush.
He was...
Category: Obituaries
A Steamer (1)
Boulmer, Northumberland.—13th September.
The life-boat searched unsuccessfully for a steamer which was sounding her siren continuously in a fog.—Rewards, £13 4s..
The Girvan Pleasure Motor Boat Carrick Lass
Girvan, Ayrshire.—On the evening of the 24th June news was received that the Girvan pleasure motor boat Carrick Lass had run ashore about half a mile .
north of Girvan harbour in a thick mist. The sea was smooth and there...
Coxswain Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M.
Coxswain Blogg has now won, since the outbreak of war, the Institution's gold medal for the third time and its silver medal for the third and fourth times. He has also been awarded, by the King, for the rescue of those 88 lives on the...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Yacht sailed to safety by Atlantic 21 crew member Lymington - South East DivisionLymington's Atlantic 21 lifeboat Frank and Mary Atkinson had to put a crew member aboard a yacht off the Shingles Bank during the strong winds of the late...
The Zixex Club
The 7-ixex Club, supporters ofPewsey branch, used the white horse they had made for Pewsey Carnival to raise money for the lifeboat service, towing it on wheels from Pewsey via Salisbury, Downton, Fordingbridge, Ringwood and Christclnirch to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Normandy
NEWHAVEN AND EASTBOURNE. — The paddle-steamer Normandy, of and for Newhaven from Dieppe, with 130 passengers and a general cargo, stranded on a reef of rocks called the Ledge, opposite Holywell, near Eastbourne, in a dense fog, a light S....
Normandy (1)
NEWHAVEN AND EASTBOURNE. — The paddle-steamer Normandy, of and for Newhaven from Dieppe, with 130 passengers and a general cargo, stranded on a reef of rocks called the Ledge, opposite Holywell, near Eastbourne, in a dense fog, a light S....
Arantzazu
The Span- ish steamer Arantzazu, of Bilbao, stranded six miles south of Haile Buoy on the 14th January, while bound laden from Bilbao to Imming- ham. She carried a crew of twenty- nine. She wirelessed for help and the motor life-boat City of...