LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...
Coxswain Thomas Sinclair
COXSWAIN THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, had the unusual distinction of being awarded the silver medal and clasp as well as the bronze medal. At the end of January 1937 Aberdeen experienced twelve days of gales which were as bad as any in...
Category: Obituaries
Workington
WORKINGTON, Sunday January 6, 1985: a 33ft fishing vessel, Mark Lisa, with two men aboard, on passage between Fleetwood and Tarbert on the Clyde, suffered engine failure and drifted on to rocks at St Bees Head. She then floated off, leaking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clarke Chapman & Co. Ltd
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
Category: Advertisement
Unione (1)
KlNGSDOWNE AND NORTH DEAL. On 16th August the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, stationed at Kingsdowne, and the Mary Somerville, of North Deal, were launched early in the morning, signal guns having been fired by the East Goodwin and Gull Light...
Ocean Spray (2)
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
An Aeroplane (18)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Dehra
AWARDS MADE On 29th May, 1965, the Weymouth life-boat Frank Spiller Locke rescued the crew of five of the yacht Dehra. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...
Many a Slip: Members of the Kent Messenger
Many a slip: Members of the Kent Messenger Social Club heard to utter an oath had to pay for their slips of the tongue. A swear box behind the bar and raffles raised £500 for East Mailing branch and chairman of the Social Club Alan Mole... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs