LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lillian
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER NEAR ROCKS Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard reported that a small cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down half a mile south of Boddam, and at 1.45 the...
John Robert, White Rose and Little Madge
Cromer, and Sheringham, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 2nd April the fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham, each with a crew of two, put to sea in fine weather. The weather changed, and at about...
150th Anniversary of Newhaven Station
COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, Secretary of the Institution, presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to the Newhaven branch on the 21st of September, 1955. This certificate commemorated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the...
Category: Awards
Friargate and the S.S. Juan Illueca
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.5 on the morning of the 6th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was thought to be ashore east of Beachy Head. After further enquiries had been made it was reported that the...
Katharine
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. The schooner Katharine, of Banff, bound from Bo'ness for Poole with a cargo of coal, struck on the North Steel Bocks, off Boulmer, in a S.S.E. wind and a high sea, on the morning of the 2nd November,foggy weather...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Major-General the Right Hon. the Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Major-General Seely). Lord Mottistone was chosen coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight, life-boat last year by his fellow members...
Category: Articles
Ereina
HELICOPTER RESCUE At 8.46 p.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a Swedish vessel had reported that a yacht was firing red flares one mile east of the Margate sands beacon. There was one hour before low water, and it...
An Aeroplane (120)
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE ISLE OF WIGHT. The life-boat, crew had assembled for an exercise, but this was cancelled when the air raid siren sounded. Before the men left the station they saw a British aeroplane come down in the sea two miles...
A Bouquet for the Lady Mayoress of London Lady Leaver Presented By Charlotte Elphick
A bouquet for the Lady Mayoress of London, Lady Leaver, presented by Charlotte Elphick, niece of Mr John Norton (background r}, past Prime Warden of the Fishmonger's Company. With them are (I to r) the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Cloud
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the coastguard inspector at Rattray asked if the life- boat would launch to stand by the yacht Silver Cloud, of London, which had a crew of...