LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Cobles
COBLES ESCORTED INTO TWO HARBOURS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 8.52 on the morning of the 28th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there were two cobles at sea and the weather was gradually becoming worse. The...
K.N.
YACHT AND THREE TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.18 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that the yacht K.N. was firing distress signals three quarters of a mile south of Ramsgate...
None (6)
ISLAND CALL At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd November, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient on Inishmaan Island needed hospital treatment. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing....
Irish Silver Medallist
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presents the silver medal to Coxswain Richard Walsh of Rosslare Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golden Eagle
Whltehills, Banffshlre.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the life-boat's second coxswain report- ed that he had seen a fishing vessel some three miles from Whitebills apparently out of control and drifting to the shore...
Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 27th of March, 1961, the honorary secretary noticed that six local fishing boats were still at sea. At 10.10, when the life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was launched, there was a fresh...
Book Review
S.O.S. The Story of the Life-boat Service. ByCyrilJolly. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) Mr. Jolly has already written the life of Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer.
Here he tells the story of the life-boat service. His book is...
Category: Articles
Flamingo
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.35 on the evening of the 29th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that a boat appeared to be aground on Arranman's Barrel Reef.
This was confirmed by the...
Sea Urchin and Rosalie
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, just after the life-boat Herbert Leigh had towed in the fishing boat Rosalie, the coxswain, who was on pilotage duty in Barrow docks, noticed that another fishing boat...
Zephyr
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1956, the Penmon coastguard tele- phoned that a cabin cruiser was burning flares one mile west of Puffin Island. Her engine had stopped, and she was in danger of...