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Isabel’s great great grandfather William Henry Baker (Padstow Coxswain, 1904–23) is pictured in a 1920s issue of Lifeboat magazine. This piece of family history inspires her own fundraising outfit in 2016 (above).

Date: Autumn 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 625 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2018

Category: Photographs

Fishing Boats (2)

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Bridlington, Yorkshire. On the 12th of May, 1960, nine local motor fishing boats put to sea at four o'clock in the morning to enable the fishermen to attend to their crab pots. A fresh easter- ly wind was blowing, and during the morning...

A Sailing Cutter

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

Reserve life-boat.—At 9.30 on the 10th of November, 1953, the reserve life- boat Thomas Markby put out from a shipbuilders' yard at Littlehampton in a swell and light south-south-east breeze. She was to undergo machin-ery trials...

Halcyon and El Alamein

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Stromness, Orkney.—At 7.42 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1056, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing- boat Halcyon, of Wick, had gone ashore on Black Craig Rock in Hoy Sound. At 7.55 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...

Four Calls to Steamer

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

FOR a series of prolonged services extending over more than three days Coxswain Frank Bloom, of Walton and Frinton, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry. The other members of the crew have all been accorded the...

Category: Services

Archglen and Empire Fabric

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...

A Motor Boat

Date: Winter 1995

Volume: 53

Issue: 531

Three saved by D class as casualty breaks up A service by Bembridge's D class inshore lifeboat has led to a letter from the Chairman of the Institution congratulating the helmsman and crew members for their courage and teamwork - which...

Delila (1)

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...

A Fishing Boat

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

In the nick of time...

A small fishing boat had a narrow squeak on 11 August when she got into difficulties, driving her perilously close to rocks off Buckie. Scotland.

Luckily, when they received the call...

Adrian

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 6.5 P . M .

a message was received from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a steamer, about five miles at sea, was making signals on her siren, but that they were not...