LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lieutenant Alphonse Herbez
Galway Bay.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 5th of February, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported a French trawler on the rocks one and a half miles south-east of Kilronan pier. Another French trawler had called at Kilronan...
Prevalent
Peel, Isle of Man. At 2.3 on the morning of the 6th of March, 1959, Portpatrick radio informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Prevalent of Brixham, with a crew of three, had broken down two to three miles...
Daisy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1959, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties to the east of the harbour entrance. Five minutes later the life-boat...
Marie Louise
HAYLING ISLAND. — The Life-boat Charlie and Adrian was launched at 5.50 A.M., on the 14th January, in response to signals of distress from the brigantine Marie Louise, winch, while on a voyage from Falmouth to Hamburg with a cargo of logwood...
Form and function
They must be practical, versatile and tough enough to take a pounding, yet still live in harmony with their communities. Architect Mark Roberts explains just some of the challenges of designing lifeboat stations
‘Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Mount Ida and a Lowestoft Drifter
Cromer, Norfolk.—9th October, 1939.
After rescuing the crew of twenty-nine of the Greek steamer Mount Ida, the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey went to the help of a Lowestoft drifter, but found that her crew had been...
Kunishi (1)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very...
A Lobster Creel Boat
Fishing vessel skipper rescues stranded man in severe conditions The rescue of a fellow fisherman stranded on an island in Storm Force winds earned Scalloway fisherman George Williamson an RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. The three members...
None (1)
Information was received through the Portpatrick Coastguard at about 7.30 P.M. on the 5th January, that flares had been seen ofl Pladda Point. The Troon Motor Life-boat Sir David Rich- mond and the Girvan Motor Life'-boat Lily Glen,...
Adoration, Ebenezer and Nellie
CAUGHT BY SUDDEN GALES Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — On the morning of the 13th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of several local fishing boats at sea, for a gale was getting up, and at 12.15, when it was blowing a...