LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Richard Eglon, Whitby
Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...
Category: Obituaries
CORRECTION
Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was quick to spot an inaccuracy in the caption to the photograph of the Workington life-boat which appeared on page 493 of the December, 1968, issue Of...
Category: Articles
Achill Beg
Two saved from yacht AT MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY. JULY 19, 1987 two members of Arranmore lifeboat crew were alerted by the sound of her distress siren to the plight of the yacht Achill Beg. which had broken from her moorings and was being swept...
Fishing Yawls
A S.S.E.
gale suddenly arose on the 26th May and a nasty broken sea got up very quickly. At about 2 P.M. it was seen that a number of yawls belonging to Crail, which had been working lobster creels, were in difficulties on...
Congress Bell and Nancy
Wicklow.—On the afternoon of the 29th September a pilot reported to the coxswain that two fishing boats, about a mile east of Five Mile Point, were flying signals of distress. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor...
Reine de la Mer
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 23rd of March, 1955, a man reported that a small vessel had entered Porthcressa Bay, apparently on her way to St. Mary's for shelter.
He later said the...
West Wind
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1957, the coastguard telephon- ed that the master of the Sunk light- vessel had reported that the yacht West Wind had made fast to the stern of the...
Woman in Water
The crew of Peterhead’s Tamar class lifeboat.
The Misses Robertson of Kintail, are pictured recovering a woman from the water into the Tamar’s inflatable daughter boat on 20 August.
Category: Articles
Medal for Rescue from Fishing Vessel
Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
Category: Services
Windswept swimmer
31 August 2012: Both New Quay lifeboats went to the aid of a swimmer swept out to sea by strong winds and the tide. The inshore crew found the exhausted man 200m from the shore. The two crews then worked together...
Category: Articles