LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frangipani
Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seasJohn Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal for bravery following the landing of a sick yachtsman in extreme and...
The S.S. Fireglow
NOVEMBER 8TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX During the afternoon the naval base at Brightlingsea reported that two steamers were sinking in the West Swin. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
Austility
LOADED WITH PETROL St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.10 p.m. on gth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the owners of the motor vessel Austility, of London, laden with petrol, had broken down and was dragging her...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING BARROW, LANCASHIRE, and MILLOM, CUMBERLAND.
At four in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1942, the naval base asked the Barrow life-boat station to search for an aeroplane which had crashed north of...
Category: Services
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton, died in April, only a month after she had resigned the Honorary Secretaryship of the Southampton Branch, on account of ill-health and advancing years. She was in her eighty-seventh year....
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain James Campbell
Coxswain James Campbell of Boul- mer died on the 18th of May, 1959, at the age of 79. He first joined the Boulmer crew in 1906, was bowman for nearly a year in 1929, and was then second coxswain for ten years. He was coxswain from 1939 to...
Category: Obituaries
British Paints Limited
TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields lifeboat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...
Category: Advertisement
The Eagle, of Llandudno
LLANDDULAS.—On the 30th July, at about 2 P.M., a disabled boat was discerned [ from this station, whilst it was blowing ; hard from the S.W. and a heavy sea j running. The Life-boat Henry Nixson \ No. 2, was launched as speedily as...
Onward
AUGUST 31ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At about midnight the life-boat watchman saw a red flare, and on making enquiries of incoming boats he found that the motor fishing boat Onward, of Rosslare Harbour, which had been fishing at...
Georgette
On the morning of the 14th Novem- ber the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the steam trawler Georgette, of Grimsby, was ashore on Outer Bank, about three miles north of Winterton. She was bound home from the fishing grounds with a...