LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Several Fishing Cobles
Several of the fishing cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 6th January, but soon after 7 A.M. the wind veered to N.E. and increased to a strong gale. Ten of the cobles were sufficiently near home to gain a shelter, but three were...
A Fishing Boat
On the return of a fishing-boat from the Broadsea fishing-ground on the 3rd August the crew reported that they had not seen anything of the Klondyke, another fishing-boat of Port Patrick, which had two men on board. As there was a rough sea...
Great Old Lady
Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Cross Again.
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, has won the Institution's gold medal for the second time since the war began. He has won it for rescuing the crew of a trawler which had stranded on a sandbank in a gale. There were heavy snow...
Category: Articles
Dinghies
MARCH 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 4.45 in the morning the military barracks at Cork reported distress signals seen off Galley Head. It was a fine night, with a slight haze, calm sea, and a light southerly wind. With the second...
SPECIAL DELIVERY
PRINCESS VICTORIA
Our feature on the Princess Victoria disaster in the spring issue evoked some memories for readers:
Pamela Miley writes:
Your article on the Princess Victoria brought back memories...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
MEN AND CHILDREN ON THE ROCKS Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 10.35 on the night of the 29th of August, 1947, it was reported that a rowing boat, which had left at 6.30 with two men and two children on board, had not returned, and later a message...
Foxfield
Walmer, Kent.—At 9.30 on the morn- ing of the 7th of September, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that the motor vessel Foxfield. bound for Bel- fast, had taken on board two survivors from a catamaran found sinking near Sandette Bank. The...
None
Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the Resident Medical Officer of the Island of Colonsay asked if the life-boat would convey a young woman suffering from appendicitis to Port Askaig in order that she could...
Progress (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.25 on the morning of the 23rd of November, 1955, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hcpworth had been launched to the help of fish- ing boats in bad weather and had escorted in several small boats. She waited near the...