LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Robert Burgon, Ex-Coxswain at Berwick-on-Tweed
Robert Burgon, at one time Coxswain of the Berwick-on-Tweed Station, was drowned, on the morning of 24th March, with two other men in a motor fishingboat which was swamped by heavy seas and sank when crossing the bar on their way home. Born...
Category: Obituaries
Some Heroes of 1913
medals are more difficult to earn, and hence few are more highly appreciated, than the Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It may indeed well be regarded as the Victoria Cross of the sea service, although it differs from that...
Category: Articles
Two Fine Services
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Life- boat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Category: Services
The S.S. Niord
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—Towards midnight on the 31st Deo., 1898, signals of distress at sea were observed off this place, and when the New Year broke, the Life-boat SJcynner was on her way to render help to the vessel which had displayed them. The...
Summary of a Meeting of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the Finance Committee be re-named "Finance and General Purposes Committee." Paid £27,617 Is. 7d. for the...
Category: Committee
Deirdre
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the Skerries Sailing Club reported that the 17-feet yacht Deirdre, of Rush, with a crew of two, had left Rush at seven o'clock for Skerries, but wasnow drifting...
Troon:
Troon: Monday February 27, 1984, at 1135, Troon's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Connel Elizabeth Cargill, under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson, left her mooring after reports that the tug Garnock had been damaged by an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Salmon Coble
Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the relief 48ft 6in Solent...
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Clovelly, North Devon - At 6.48 p.m.
on 14th January, 1967, information was received, that a boy was stranded on a rock about 500 yards from the shore at Northcott Mouth, one mile north of Bude. The life-boat William...
The St.Mary's (Isle of Scilly) Lifeboat Robert Edgar
The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs