LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Puffin (1)
MOTOR BOAT AGROUND AT HARBOUR MOUTH Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.
At 9.30 on the morning of the 29th September, 1962, the coxswain saw the motor boat Puffin enter the harbour on her return from the fishing grounds to...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, four men were cut off by the tide under the Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Seaford. One of them swam to Cuckmere. There the police informed the Newhaven coastguard who passed the news...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS M. SINCLAIR, on his retirement, after serving for 24J years as coxswain of the Aberdeen life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To ROBERT YOUNG, on his retirement, after serving for 13J...
Category: Awards
Life-Boats In the Coronation Review at Spithead
(see page 595). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Naval Officer's Gratitude
AT six o'clock in the morning on the 5th of December, 1947, the Bembridge motor life-boat, Jesse Lumb, went out to the help of a vessel firing signals of distress about four miles south-east of St. Catherine's Point. A gale was...
Category: Services
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Walkers saved from submerged rockThe skilled actions, in difficult conditions, of helmsman Ronnie Davies, 43, of the Borth lifeboat, saved the lives of two walkers, trapped on a sea-battered rock beneath Borth Head.
At 1920...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Ix—Closed Circuits
FIRST A CORRECTION: In part VIII of this article an error appeared in the size given for the keel bolts. The ballast keel of the Rother is in fact fixed with 12mm bolts.
The photographs on this page show work progressing on...
Category: Articles
Vixen and John and Ann
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—On the 20th December, during a whole gale of wind from the N. and a heavy sea, the No. 2 Life-boat Helen of Foxley put off at 6 A.M. in reply to signals of distress shown by two vessels at anchor in the roadstead.<...
Trawlers Remexo and Loch Park
Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.40 on the evening of the 19th of November, 1957, the life-boat night watchman reported seeing a red flare on the Binks. Two minutes later the Spurn Point coast- guard reported that the steam trawler Remexo, of Grimsby...
William and Martha (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 8.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a heavy swell was building up on the bar and that at least one of the smaller cobles was at sea.
The life-boat Mary Ann...