LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peaceful Retirement
On the beach at Deal. Thomas Cribben, second-coxswain of the Deal life-boat from 1921 until the station was closed in October 1932.. - View image in PDF
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Beaulieu
Margate, Kent.—At 1.15 i n the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1948, a tug with a yacht in tow was seen five miles to the northward, making little headway, and at 2.30 the coastguard telephoned that she appeared to have broken down and was...
Royal Archer, of Leith
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Soon after 8 P.M. on the 12th June messages were received from the coastguard and the Royal Naval Signal Station that a steamer with 120 passengers on board had been beached one mile west of South Shoebury buoy,...
Yacht Betsy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 1 P.M. on the 1st August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat which had been to a vessel off the Naze was on her way back showing distress signals. A freshening strong N.E. breeze was...
Campania
The Motor Life-boat Morison Watson was launched at mid- day on the 18th October as the owner of the fishing boat Campaina had brought news that his boat, which was riding at anchor in Garlieston Bay, with no one on board, was in danger of...
Boy Bob
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 5.15 P.M. on the 9th February, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that the local fishing boat Boy Bob had gone out early that day to haul her lines off Gardenstown,...
Sea Gull
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a rowing boat was in difficulties three miles east of Moelfre Island. Ten minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched...
Magna
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 5.45 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1959, the honorary secretary heard from Wick radio station that there was a badly injured seaman aboard the motor vessel Magna of Helsingborg, Sweden, who needed medical...
A Ship's Boat
Hovvth, Co. Dublin. At 4.16 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1960, the Garda informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in distress off Malahide bar. At 4.36 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, put out...
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 14th of April, 1953, the life-boat bowman returned from fishing and reported that sea condi- tions to the northward were becoming bad. Five fishing cobles were still at sea, and at 9.30 the...