LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Leander
On the evening of the 16th March information was received that the motor fishing boat Leander, with two men on board, was overdue. A squally W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain squalls. Some time later it was re- ported that...
James Bower Awards
COXSWAIN John Sales of Lerwick and Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St.
Ives have both received gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund established by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation...
Category: Awards
Mrs Edith Greig 94 Years Old
Mrs Edith Greig, 94 years old, has collected for the lifeboats every year since World War I and on March 10 helped Mexborough and District guild collect £731 on its flag day; she was 'on the job' from 9am to 4pm. A holder of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. S.J.R. Legerton, of Clacton-On-Sea
BY the death of Mr. Robert Legerton on 28th September, at the age of eighty, the Institution has lost one who has been closely associated with its Clacton- on-Sea Station since its establishment fifty-two years ago, and who, as a Coxswain,...
Category: Obituaries
George and Martha, and Mizpah
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane
JANUARY 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.10 in the morning, information was received from the coastguard that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in Douglas Bay about two hundred yards off the Crescent Hotel. The weather was stormy, with a...
A Dinghy from an Aeroplane
APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.35 A.M. information was received from the R.A.F. at Coltishall that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.N.W. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at...
The P&O Liner Oceana and The German Barque Pisagua
The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March with the German barque Pisagua.
The...
French Trawler Keriolet Towed Back In Llfracombe In Storm Force Winds By Charles H Barrett (Civil Service No 35) Clovelly's 70' Clyde Class Lifeboat Photograph By Co
French trawler Kcriolct, towed back In llfracombe in storm force winds by Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), Clovelly's 70' Clyde class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of D. S. Evans. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (4)
Walmer, Kent. At approximately 6.53 p.m. on 7th July, 1965, life-boatmen at the boathouse saw an overturned dinghy with her crew of two in the water a mile seawards off Deal pier. The IRB launched immediately, in a light northwesterly breeze...