LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marie and Therese
Atnoonon2istAugust, 1966, the French fishing vessel Marie and Therese was stated to have broken down about 30 miles north by west of Strumble Head. There was a fresh north north easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...
The S.S. Taxiarchis
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At 3.22 in the afternoon of the 14th of January, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a vessel was aground on the West Scar, and at 3.45 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate westerly breeze, with a...
A Dinghy (2)
At 10.30 a.m. on 5th November, 1967, a member of the life-boat crew saw a sailing dinghy capsize in Mumbles Bay. As there was no boat in the vicinity the IRB carried on board the life-boat Charles H. Barret was launched at 10.33 in a strong...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To HENRY G. BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., on hig retirement, after serving for thirty-seven and three-quarter years as coxswain and seven and a quarter years as second coxswain of the Cromer life-boats, a coxswain's certificate of service and an...
Category: Awards
Rask
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...
The Story of a Gale In Pictures. On the East Coast, 13th December, 1933
The Story of A Gale In Pictures on the East Coast 13th December 1933. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
Category: Advertisement
Patricia Peggy
Hastings, Sussex. At nine o'clock on the night of the 30th of October, 1960, when the wind was freshening from the south-west, it was learnt that one of five trawlers, which had been out fishing, the Patricia Peggy, had not returned to...
A Dinghy (3)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.42 on the evening of the 23rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had overturned off Ballyreagh and that three people were in the water. There was a gentle north-...
Arthur Rogers
ESCORTING A YACHT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Redsands about two miles south-east of Redsand Towers and that seas were...