LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catherine
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK.— At1 A.M. on the 3rd May, during a strong gale from the N.E. with a heavy sea, a vessel was observed on shore at Waxham, showing signals of distress. With all possible speed the Life-boat Parses was at once taken...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Captain William Watts-Williams, the coxswain of the St. David's life-boat. Captain Watts-Williams first went to sea at the age of thirteen, forty-nine years ago, and after a long and varied career,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (35)
MARCH 16TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £12 2s..
The Reliance
A strong gale from the N.E. sprung up on the afternoon of the 14th February, accompanied by snow-showers and a very high sea. Most of the fishing-boats had returned home, but one of them, the Reliance, was overtaken by the storm and was...
East Coast
VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...
By Courtesy of the Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd.
by courtesy of The Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meg
APRIL 25TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
The rowing boat Meg, with no one on board, anchored in Llandudno Bay, was in danger of sinking during a strong southerly gale, with a rough sea. Three men put out in the small...
Intrigue
Margate, Kent. At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 27th October, 1961, the coast-guard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Tongue lightvessel had wirelessed that a sailing yacht with four people on board was secured astern...
Golden Years, the Danish Coaster Else Gitte
Hurricane force 12 STORM FORCE WINDS, gusting to hurricane force 12 from the west south west, were sweeping the west coast of Scotland on the morning of Thursday March 20, 1986, when the Troon pilot heard over his radio that the fishing...
Yves Herve,
February 1997 Yves Herve, ex-coxswain of Criccieth lifeboat from 1964 to 1968. Yves joined the station in 1953, becoming head launcher in 1957 and acting coxswain in 1963..
Category: Obituaries