LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 16 Lives rescued 11 INISHBOFIN, CO. GALWAY. During the morning of the 4th of January, 1943, the Valentia radio received a message that the Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. Later the position was given Inishshark...
Category: Services
The Guernsey Fishing Vessel Petit Michel
Disabled fishing boat TORBAY LIFEBOAT Princess Alexandra of Kent, a 52' Barnett class built in 1958, slipped her moorings at 1950 onDecember 16, 1973, in response to mayday call received by Berry Head Coastguard from the Norwegian vessel...
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
Tributes to Sir George Shee
Torbay Motor Life-boat to be Named after Him.
AT their meeting on 17th September the Committee of Management resolved to " mark their high appreciation of Sir George Shee, as Secretary of the Institu- tion for...
Category: Articles
The Record of a Legacy. 1,072 Lives Rescued By the Twenty James Stevens Life-Boats
1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.
IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...
Category: Articles
Two Ex-Coxswains Drowned
ON the 25th of May a fishing coble, the Ricia, from Cloughey, Co. Down, went out lobster-fishing. She had three men on board, Andrew Young, his brother, John Young, and John's son, Andrew Young, junior. They were expected back before...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Thurso- Arun class The Queen Mother On Wednesday 9 August Thurso's new Arun class lifeboat The Queen Mother was overshadowed by the presence at Scrabster Harbour of her namesake, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who had so...
Category: Inaugurations
Olive May
On the 3rd Septem- ber, at about 5.15 P.M., fishermen told the Coxswain that a barge, two miles E.S.E. of Cromer, was flying a signal. The weather was fine with a smooth sea and strong W.N.W. breeze.
The signal was not...
A Rowing Boat
LIFE-BOAT HIT BOTTOM Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.3 a.m.
on iyth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat, 600 yards off the beach, was in apparent difficulty at Holland...
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Two dogs TWO CERTIFICATES OF MERIT have been awarded by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to lifeboatmen of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston; one to the crew of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham who rescued a dog on...