LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centurity
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1956, the harbour master received a message from the motor vessel Centurity of London, which had anchored in the harbour because of bad weather, that her crew...
A Sailing Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.55 in the evening of the 1st of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fourteen- feet international class sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized half a mile south-east of the harbour, and at 7.15...
Samsal
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk...
Category: Services
A Gallant Mechanic
ON 21st October last the mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, Mr.
H. W. Jefferson, was at work in the Boat-house cleaning the engine. He went on deck to turn the crank-shaft by hand, and the engine backfired and set...
Category: Articles
Service Awards
Awards to coxswains, crew members and shore helpers The following people were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 2000.
* denotes coxswain Names in italic have served at least 30 years Names in blue have...
Category: Awards
John and Naomi Beattie Under Sail During Her Historic Passage to Her Original Station at Aberystwyth
John and Naomi Beattie under sail during her historic passage to her original station at Aberystwyth. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesey David Jenkins). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats at war
75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...
Category: Articles
Boy and Uncle Rescued By Boatman
ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...
Category: Articles
Pensher
On the night of the 9th February, 1857, signal lights of distress were observed to seaward from Southwold in Suffolk. The life-boat immediately went off under sail, and found them to proceed from the brig Pensher, coal laden, which had...