LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Converted Life-Boat In Danger
AT 12.15, early on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Walney coastguard rang up the Barrow life- boat station to say that a man living in Bootle had reported that his small daughter had seen a small boat aground half a mile south of...
Category: Services
Volunteer and Sarah Davies
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Flares were shown by two vessels at anchor in Fishguard Bay while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather and snow, onthe llth February. Eockets were immediately fired at...
Dragonfly
Torbay, Devon.-—Early in the after- noon, on the 26th of September, 1950, the Berry Head coastguard reported a small motor boat apparently broken down. The occupants were waving to attract attention. At 2.5 the life-boat George Shee put out...
A Raft
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At i.io p.m. on I7th March, 1967, news was received that a party of students were about to leave the beach at Frinton on a raft to go to the radio transmitting station Radio London. They were told that it was...
A Sailboard
Once a lifeboatman, always a lif eboatman - or that was the case at Barrow on 19 March 1992 when the Barrow lifeboat mechanic Bryan Jackson enlisted the aid of ex-lifeboatman Ernest Diamond to rescue a windsurfer in a half-hour...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...
Category: Articles
Pensions for Widows and Orphans
As our readers are aware, it has been the practice of the Institution, from its earliest days, to make substantial grants to the widows and children of the gallant men who have lost their lives "on active service" in the cause of...
Category: Articles
Town of Liverpool
At 1 P.M. on the 21st December, during a gale from the N.E. with a tremendous sea, a vessel was observed on shore at Waxham. The No. 1 Life-boaf Good Hope was promptly manned and launched, but the water was too low to float her over the bank...
Auriol
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a sail- ing dinghy had capsized about one and a half miles east of the coastguard station. At 12.3 the life-boat John...
Gavotte II, of Portsmouth
Salcombe, Devon - At 1.50 p.m. on 14th July, 1968, the motor mechanic was informed that a yacht had capsized on the harbour bar. The lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings at 1.57 in a strong west south westerly wind and a...