LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN SWANSON, on his retirement, after serving for 34 J years as coxswain and 9 years as bowman of the Longhope life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and a pension.
To WILLIAM DYKE, on his retirement, after...
Category: Awards
Two Meteor Aeroplanes
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. — At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned a report from the R.A.F.
station at Uxbridge that two Meteor aeroplanes had...
Mary Lloyd
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—On the 19th April, at 3 P.M., a schooner was seen entering Ballycotton Sound with a signal of distress flying. The pilot boat was manned and went out, but the weather was too stormy,' a gale from the...
Crews Pull Their Weight Lymington Ilb Crew Set Off for Their Row Round the Isle of Wight: Bow to Stern Malcolm Smith Alan Coster Richard Gray Roger Nanmck and And
Crews pull their weight. . . Lyininglon ILB crew set off for their row round the hie of Wight: Bow to stern, Malcolm Smith, Alan Coster, Richard Gray, Roger Nanmck and Andrew Keen.
Photograph by courtesy of Simon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Setting Sail on a New Voyage: Crew Member Paul Frost of Rhyl Aboard the ILB With His Bride Mary Bernadette Morris After Their Wedding Last Autumn Photograph By Courte
Setting sail on a new voyage: Crew Member Paul Frost of Rhyl aboard the ILB with his bride, Mary Bernadette Morris, after their wedding last autumn. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Rhyl Journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chorzow
DECEMBER 16TH and l7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 12.12 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a steamer, off Goring, was going round in circles and sounding her whistle. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
Sabrina and Pen Cw
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the harbour master reported that the yacht Sabrina had parted her moorings and was drifting on a lee shore with one man on board. The life-boat St. Albans was...
Freesia, of Grimsby
Motor Life-boat.
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from...
Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued. A Service By Ilfracombe, Appledore and Clovelly
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1950 - 76,899 Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued A Service by Ilfracombe,...
Category: Services
Etoile du Marin
SCARBOROUGH.-—On the morning of the 8th December, at 10 o'clock, the schooner Etoile du Marin, of and for Dunkirk from Leith, with coal, was approaching the harbour during a strong gale from the E., and a very heavy sea, and as it was...