LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Fishing Vessel (1)
MFV Ashore A MOTOR FISHING VESSEL ashore on the south side of the Conwy approach channel was reported to a deputy launching authority of Conwy inshore lifeboat station by Penmon Coastguard at 0752 on Thursday, April 14. Maroons were fired...
Bass, Alto and Vivendi (1)
Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
A Small Rowing Boat (1)
AUGUST 15TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A small rowing boat had been reported missing, but it got to land without help after having been stranded on a sandbank.
- Rewards, £13 16s..
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (1)
GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK On the 26th October, 1941, determined efforts were made by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat to give help to the crew of the S.S. English Trader, of London.
COXSWAIN CHARLES A....
Category: Medals
A Naval Patrol Vessel (1)
AUGUST 2ND. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A naval patrol vessel had been bombed by enemy aircraft, but her crew were rescued by another vessel.- Rewards, £17 13s. 6d..
The S.S. English Trader (1)
SILVER AND BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON OCTOBER 26TH - 27TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About eight in the morning a message came from the Cromer coastguard that the Yarmouth...
The S.S. Flying Enterprise (1)
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats (1)
The Fishwives of Cullercoats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Flying Falcon (1)
HOYLAKE AND NEW BRIGHTON.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the s.s. Flying Falcon, of Liverpool, bound there from Mostyn with a large number of passengers, stranded on the East Hoyle Sandbank near Spencer's Spit.
The...
Life-Boatmen In London (1)
THE gales of the, past winter brought to London the largest number of life- boatmen who have attended the Annual Meeting to receive their medals since this custom was started in 1913.
Fifteen were invited : Coxswain Patrick...
Category: Articles