LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Biscaya
Biscaya sinks AT 0144 on December 13, 1974, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston honorary secretary was informed by Gorleston Coastguard that the 493 ton motor vessel Biscaya had been in collision with a French tug and tow in position 52°24'...
Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.53 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1951, a resident at Waterwynch report- ed to the coastguard that a rowing boat seemed to be in difficulties in Water- wynch Bay. A later message made it two rowing boats. At...
A Cabin Cruiser
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1952, the coast- guard saw a cabin-cruiser drifting towards the rocks about two miles south of Berwick. At 5.10 the life- boat...
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West Mersea, Essex. At about 4.30 p.m. on 2oth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three people were stranded on a sandbank at Point Gear on the River (Seine. At 4.30 the IRB launched in a ftesh north-westerly...
St.Peter Port Lifeboatmen With Radiant Med Survivors
St Peter Port lifeboatmen with Radiant Med crew members rescued on January 24. Before the survivors left Guernsey the lifeboatmen took them on an island tour but a lifeboat alert towards the end of the afternoon meant a dash to St Peter Port... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
North Foreland
North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) isa46ft9in Watson,the first class to be built with a centre cabin and midships steering position. Following the lifeboat disasters of 1969 and 1970 she was fitted with an automatically inflating bag on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fleet Air Arm Barracuda Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 4.40 in the afternoon the St.
Anne’s coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about three miles west-south-west of Squires Gate. A light north...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, Cork.
He served as second coxswain from 1911 until 1922, and since 1922 he has been coxswain, so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat (2)
Barra Island, Hebrides.—16th November.
Two keepers had put out from Monach Island lighthouse, forty-five miles from Barra, in a small boat on the previous day, and all trace of them had been lost. An unsuccessful search was...