LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yarmouth: After Naming Joy and John Wade (Above) the Duke of Kent Went Afloat In the Lifeboat and Is Seen (Below) on the Flying Bridge With Coxswain David Kennett
Yarmouth: After naming Joy and John Wade (above), the Duke of Kent went afloat in the lifeboat and is seen (below) on the flying bridge with Coxswain David Kennett. (Left) Coxswain Kennett and Second Coxswain/ Mechanic Richard Whibley are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Cox Joined Wells Lifeboat Crew In 1943 and Was Appointed Coxswain In 1960; He Was Awarded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum In 1964 and 1973 and the Silver Medal In 1979
David Coxjoined Wells lifeboat crew in 1943 and was appointed coxswain in 1960; he was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1964 and 1973 and the silver medal in 1979.
photograph by courtesy of Peter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ninety-Three Lives Rescued from a White Star Vessel
About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...
Category: Services
Marina Benvenuto
ABKLOW, IBELANB,—At 3 P.M. on the 28th December the Italian barque Marina Benvemito, bound from Liverpool to Cardiff in ballast, was observed ashore on the -Arklow bank. The wind was blowing from the 8.W., the weather was hazy, and the sea...
An Inflatable Dinghy
Capsized inflatable THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1522 on Saturday April 25, 1981, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized in Porthdinllaen Bay, throwing two people into the water....
Dorothea
The steam trawler Dorothea, registered at Thors- haven, Faroe Islands, left Fleetwood for the fishing grounds early in the morning of the 16th January, but stranded on the west end of Walney Island, shortly after 3 A.M. The vessel was then...
Fishing Boats
Several of the fishing-boats belonging to Bally- cotton, when at sea, were overtaken by the storm of the llth-12th January.
The majority of them reached safety, but the Winefred, having lost her sails, drifted into...
Surprise
On the 10th June the fishing lugger Surprise, of Lowestoft, which had put to sea the previous day, had not returned, and, as there was a moderate S.W. gale blowing with a rough sea, it was considered advisable to make a search for...
S.S. Cayo Bonito
WHITBY and UPGANG, YORKSHIRE.— About 9.45 on the night of the 21st January information reached the Coxswain at Whitby that a steamer wasashore at Upgang, whereupon the No.
Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis,"was launched...
Yacht Saladin
Dover, Kent.—At about 12.45 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, morse signals were seen from a yacht. The night was very stormy, with a whole S.E. gale and very rough sea. While the life-boat crew were assembling a man from the cutter yacht Saladin,...