LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Admiralty Barge
FEBRUARY 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 4.35 P.M. the coastguard reported that the naval authorities wished the life-boat crew to be assembled as an Admiralty barge was in difficulties in Peterhead Bay. An hour later the crew were...
Lecture on Life-Boats
I.—Preliminary Remarks, IN a country bounded on all sides by the sea, whose earliest associations are connected with it, through the medium of which it has derived its civilization, its wealth, its grand political status, and probably to a...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Four Swimmers
ON the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1957, a number of people, children as well as adults, were bathing in the sea off Barmouth beach. About three o'clock somebody raised the alarm that a swimmer was in difficulties, and a local...
Category: Services
Britisher
JANUARY 16TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 1.15 P.M. it was reported that a barge, disabled and burning distress flares, was driving towards the Newcome Sands.
A whole N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
Rask (1)
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...
No. 1305
MOTOR LAUNCH ON THE SCROBY SANDS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Shortly after three in the morning of the 10th of June, 1947, the coast- guard reported flares, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was...
Gold Medal for Welsh Coxswain
Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat (1)
Stronsay, and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 10.24 on the night of the 26th of May, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned the Stronsay life-boat sta- tion that a man had left St. Catherine's Bay in a motor boat for Kirkwall at five...
A Fishing Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 7.17 on the night of the 17th of October, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a Ballycastle fishing boat, with a crew of four, could not enter Ballycastle Harbour because of a heavy swell and was making for a port...
A Rowing Boat (10)
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private resident that a rowing boat, with two women on board,...