LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Floran
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 8.20 on the evening of the llth of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Turnberry lighthouse-keeper had reported that an auxiliary yacht had stopped, but was using a small sail between...
Carraig Doun
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of June, 1956, the Dingle Coast Life-saving Service tele- phoned that the fishing boat Carraig Doun, of Dublin, had engine trouble one mile west of Ventry harbour and was being driven...
Two Sailing Boats
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Mumbles told the honorary secretary that two sailing boats had capsized between Ferryside and Llanstephan. At 2.40 the life- boat Caroline...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 19th January, 1939, the fishing fleet put to sea, and by 2 P.M.
all but four boats had returned. At this time a fresh S.E. breeze wasblowing, with a strong sea and a dense fog....
Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain Harold Parkinson, of Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. He became coxswain in April, 1959, and was awarded the Institution's bronze medal in 1962 for the rescue of the four members of a yacht's crew. He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Alexander Gall
The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
Category: Obituaries
Mary B.
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Fishing Vessel
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Isabella (1)
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October. 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a local man had put off in his fishing coble Isabella to attend to his crab-pots in bad weather. The weather was deteri- orating...