LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Black Bess
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At about 11 A.M.
on the 30th September, 1938, the coastguard reported a motor launch broken down two and a half miles E.N.E. of Sizewell. About half an hour later she hoisted a signal of distress, and...
A Fourteen-Feet Flat-Bottomed Boat
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 5.30 in the evening, on the 31st of May, 1950, in calm weather, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched for exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. M.
Clifford Gibbons, and the district...
A Dinghy (4)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1957, a message was received from the RoyalUlster Constabulary barracks that a small boat with three men on board was missing at Ballywhiskin,...
Mark Twain
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.52 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, it was learnt that the Nab pilot cutter was trying to tow a dismasted yacht. The assistance of the life-boat was requested. There was a fresh west-south-westerly breeze, a choppy...
A Barge
On the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage life-boat rescued the only man on board a barge which had broken adrift from a tug and was driving for the shore. For this service a full account of which is given on page 190, Coxswain Robert Brown...
Letters
Boxed clever Gloucester's Flag Day is always held early in the year, when the weather can be guaranteed to be inclement. This year's collecting went on during a blizzard of snow! Determined to keep the chill wind from my feet and...
Category: Correspondence
Martha
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT WALTON AND FRINTON JANUARY 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. In the early morning flares were seen burning about half a mile north of the pier at Walton, close to the beach. Asouth-easterly gale was blowing, with...
Painting 'The Lynmouth Lifeboat Service 1899' By Mark R Myers Rsma
MY INTEREST IN PAINTING an incident from the famous Lynmouth lifeboat service to Forrest Hall goes back to the time when I was boatswain in the little square-rigged replica of Nonsuch ketch.
We were on passage from Falmouth...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Mizpah and Ocean Gift
On the 17th November the motor fishing boat Mizpah, of Newhaven, which was fishing off the Seven Sisters, got into difficulties through the failure of her engine. A moderate westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...