LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vala
The steamer Va la, of Grangemouth, whilst bound from Valencia to Hull with a cargo of oranges, was weather-bound off Gorleston on the 21st February. Being short of provisions they sent off a boat containing five men to procure some, but in...
Zinita
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had anchored off the East pier, but that the anchor was dragging. The yacht signalled for help, and at 4.35 the life-boat...
Killed on Active Service
IN "Obituary of the Years of War, 1939-1945," "in the last issue of The Life-boat, there should have appeared two other names, John Herbert Bolton and Thomas Valentine Bennett.
Mr. Bolton joined the staff of...
Category: Obituaries
Va-Sans-Peur
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 25th of March, 1948, information was received from Dyffryn that two men had landed in a dinghy from the French fishing vessel Va-Sans-Peur, of Concarneau, bound for Liverpool, and had...
Ben Bheula
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the morning of the 16th of March, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard reported a message from McArthur's Head Lightr house that a vessel was flashing S.O.S.
signals one mile from the...
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
Category: Articles
Blue Waters
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the Llandudno coast- guard that a yacht bound for Liverpool was making heavy weather....
Beetle Drive
THE WRECKERS recently returned to the popular Devonshire holiday resort of Ilfracombe, but these particular plunderers were strictly landlubbers who had managed to smuggle their way into timbers within the local life-boat...
Category: Articles
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INJURED YOUTH PICKED UP BY BOARDING BOAT Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs two miles south of...
Gay Gull and a Fishing Boat
TWO SERVICES IN BAD WEATHER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 a.m.
on Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the coxswain was told that a local fishing boat which had left for the fishing ground eight miles north of Wicklow had not...