LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS.—On the morning of the 9th October a heavy sea rose up, and as several cobles had gone out early, some fishing and some piloting, it was feared that some accident might occur to them in coming in over the bar. The Life-boat...
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
VELLUMS FOR THE WALTON CREW Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 2.45 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard received information from the Felixstowe look-out that a barge was in distress near the...
A Boat Fairy Queen
During a strong south-easterly gale on the 10th August, the pilots at this place observed a boat, about eight miles to the N.E., with a signal at her mast-head. The Christopher Brown Life-boat proceeded to it, but found that the boat was...
Fishing Boats (2)
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that local fishing boats were returning to the har- bour in a rough sea and a strong north- north-west wind, and that conditions at the...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To DAVID Mum, on his retirement, after serving 22 years as Coxswain, 7 years as Second Coxswain and 5 years as Bowman of the Girvan Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To JOHN WM. PARKINSON, on his retirement...
Category: Awards
Stowmarket and Needham Market Branch
Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Conakrian
OCTOBER 23RD. - ABERDEEN. As pre.
viously reported the No. 1 life-boat Emma Constance had been out on service to the S.S.
Conakrian, of Freetown, on the 20th October, and again on the 22nd. Early in the...
Football
THE annual match for the " Baring Cup" was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co.
Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The...
Category: Articles
Squire, of Yarmouth
On the 10th March, 1867, the schooner Squire, of Yar- mouth, was observed making for the shore in a disabled state, a heavy gale blowing from E.N.E. at the time. -The North Briton life-boat was soon launched, and gal- lantly pulled through a...
Jessie
MEVAGISSEY, CORNWALL.—The sloop Jessie, of and for Truro, from Plymouth, with a general cargo, showed signals of distress on the evening of the 10th October.
The Life-boat John Arthur put off to her assistance at 7.30 and...