LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Special Voyage
Deb Graham, daughter of Exmouth coxswain Keith Graham, helped mark a special occasion when she went aboard Exmouth's Trent class lifeboat during the traditional Christmas Day swim off Exmouth beach last year.
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Category: Photographs
Gallilee, Victory and Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put to sea early in the morning of the llth March, but the weather got bad, and by 11 A.M. all but three boats had returned. A strong east breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy showers of snow....
Roma
The Coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress from a vessel at 8.45 P.M. on the 7th March during a south-westerly gale. He at once assembled the crew and launched the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox. On arrival he found the bar-...
Safe Landings?
High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...
Category: Articles
George Stroud
On the 25th December the steam trawler George Stroud, of Aberdeen, was wrecked when entering the harbour. The Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance rescued one of the crew, and another was rescued by the Institution's North Pier...
Holba
Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of...
Alpheus Marshall
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.
— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...
Jean Anderson
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—The brigantine Jean Anderson, of Dundalk, bound from Ardrossan to Dundalk with coal was seen ashore on the east side of Dundalk Bar with a signal for assistance flying, at 8 A.M. on the 18th...
THREE MATERNITY CASES
THREE MATERNITY CASES Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—A severe blizzard on the 12th of March, 1947, isolated Campbeltown. On the morning of the 15th a woman with child in the Southend district needed a doctor, and at 10.50 that, morning the motor...
H.M. S.M.L. A 322
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1956, H.M. S.M.L. A 322 was observed to be aground on a rock outside Mallaig harbour. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put out at four o'clock with the second coxswain...