LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Appledore Boathouse Opening
Appledore boathouse opening The official opening and dedication of the Appledore lifeboat house took place on 29 September 2001. Storm Force member Harriet Weatherby Crompton (12) cut the ribbon and officially declared the boathouse open.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flower of Fleet
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen one mile west of Portland Bill. At 9.20 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out. The sea was...
Moonflower
PwllheU, Caernarvonshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1956, it was reported that a yacht wasfour hours overdue after a race from Abersoch round the St. Patrick's causeway buoy. The life-boat Kather- ine and Virgoe...
A Steamer (13)
MARCH 13TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
An enemy aeroplane was seen to drop a bomb on the stern of a steamer, and although the life-boat arrived on the sceneonly four minutes after the steamer had sunk, she found no sign of the...
Fishing Boats (1)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 7th of February, 1955, the weather worsened while fourteen local fishing boats were at sea, and at ten o'clock the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with an ex- coxswain...
Tributes from the Services.
After only six months of war the Admiralty sent a special letter of thanks to the Institution for the "exemplary spirit ot courage and endurance, in which, without fear or thought of self, the life-boatmen have never spared their...
Category: Articles
For a Change the Endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick Is Being Tested
For a change, the endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick is being tested other than by hours spent at sea in bad conditions.
Here he is seen on the station's open day during an eight-hour non-stop sponsored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Storm King and Petrel
MONTBOSE.—On the morning of the 10th October, while the tug Storm King was towing the schooner Petrel, of and for Montrose, from Balta Sound, Shetland, the tow line broke, and the schooner went on the " Leads " rocks. A fresh N.E....
Cnosa
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the Liberian tanker Cnosa about twenty miles south-east of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse. At three o'clock...
C. Risager
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 2.26 on the morning of the 5th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the police that red flares had been seen off Glenarm. Further enquiries were made,...