LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THIEVES to SHAME
After a charity box containing up to about £20 had been stolen from the lounge bar of the City of London public house, Gravesend, Kent, a 'mystery' women put the thieves to shame when she walked in and handed the landlord a...
Category: Articles
Sir Frederick Bowhill
Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...
Category: Obituaries
Castlemaine
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 4th March, at about 1 A.M., intelligence was received that a ship had stranded in Ballybalbert Bay, three miles south of this Life-boat Station. The wind was blowing a hurricane from the S.E., with heavy sleet...
Lanie
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 4th of September, 1951, the life-boat bowman reported that a ship had been seen in a dangerous position about one mile north-west of the Rock Channel's outer buoys. A strong south-westerly...
The Motor Cruisers Lady Betty and Celeriter
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.30 on the morning of the 7th of November, 1952, the life-boat E.M.E.D. left Harwich for her station, after towing in the motor barge Sway. At the same time the Walton-on-the-Naze j coastguard telephoned the...
Greylass
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1952, the life-boat coxswain asked local people to keep a look-out for the fishing vessel Greylass, of Hoylake, which was overdue with a crew of three. Nothing...
Solent Sedge
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 30th of April, 1957, the Needles coastguard reported that the yacht Solent Sedge was ashore on the Shingles with a rope entangled in her propeller. The life-boat S.G.E.
A Dinghy (2)
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.35 on the morning of the 22nd of May, 1957, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the east pier watchman had reported a dinghy drifting past Quern buoy.
At 7.52 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service...
Magnum
Douglas, Isle of Man - At 11.28 a.m.
on 18th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a distress message had been received from the power boat Magnum, which had broken down 15 miles from Douglas...
Eglantine
JAN. 17TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 3.50 P.M. the St. Ann’s Head coastguard reported that a French schooner was in distress two miles south of the Head.
She was the Eglantine, of Treguier, bound laden...