LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To TIMOTHY KEOHANE, on his retirement, after serving 23£ years as Coxswain of the Courtmacsherry Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To CHARLES WM. CONWAY, on his retirement, after serving 5J years as...
Category: Awards
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part II—Lofting and Laying Down the Keel
THE SCENE OF ACTION now moves from the design office to the boatyard (William Osborne Ltd, Littlehampton) which will have been sent the lines plan of the boat (illustrated at very small scale at the foot of this page). It is the lines plan...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Union
BRIDLINGTON.—At about 11.30 A.M. on the 24th December the s.s. Allerwash, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, landed four men from the S.S. Union, of Flensburg, and reported that the latter vessel was on fire, and had lost her propeller, seven miles from...
Henny
At 2.35 P.M.
on the 3rd March, a vessel was observed by the Coxswain standing into danger near the Scroby Sands. He therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat John Burch and proceeded to her. She proved to be...
Vasilefs Georgios and Kildonan
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...
The S.S. Haller
At 9 A.M. on the 1st October Coxswain John Haylett was informed that a steamer was ashore on the north part of the Scroby Sands.
The No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched with the least possible delay and proceeded to the...
Sir Garnet
GREAT YARMOUTH.—Flares and rockets having been observed in the roadstead while a strong N. to N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 8th September, the Life-boat John Burch was launched at 9.35 P.M. and proceeded in the...
Nornen
BURNHAM.—On the morning of the 3rd March the barque Nornen, having drifted up the Channel from Lundy Island and having lost all her sails, went Aground on the Burrows Hats, in a whole gale from W.N.W., a heavy sea and thick weather, with...
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...