LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sibiria
A Magnificent Group of Services.
19th~21st November, 1916.
SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...
Scarlet Buccaneer
Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class lifeboat have been awarded the RNLI's...
Dorothy Lambert
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 1.8 early on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the trawler Dorothy Lambert, of Fleetwood, had wirelessed that she had gone aground three miles north-west-by-west of...
A Shrimp Boat Lord Clyde
At 10.40 A.M.
on the 2nd August, during a moderate E.N.E. gale with heavy sea, the Coast- guard reported that a disabled shrimp boat was driving ashore about a mile to the southward. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark...
'A radical new approach'
How are we tackling the drowning problem around our coasts?
In 2012, we reached a crossroads in our mission to save lives at sea. We had the best possible kit, training and crew, yet there...
Category: Articles
Coxswain J. A. Atkinson
COXSWAIX J. A. ATKINSON died on the 17th of October, 1955, at the age of 76. He was coxswain of the Padstow no. 1 life-boat from 1929 until he retired in 1944. His earliest appoint- ment by the Institution was as mate of the tug Helen Peele...
Category: Obituaries
A Dinghy (3)
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of June, 1957, a message was received from a man living in Penmon that his twelve-year-old sonwas drifting in a dinghy out towards Penmon Point. At 12.30 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs....
Providence
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At four in the, afternoon of the 2nd of January, 1949, the coastguard reported that red flares had been burned by the local motor fishing boat Providence, about three miles to the southward, and the life- boat Mary Ann...
None (5)
Torbay, Devon. — At 6.40 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1952, the police telephoned for the help of the life-boat for a woman, marooned on a rock off Mansands. She had had a heart attack. With the bowman in charge of a scratch crew the...
La Morlaye
Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going aground just...