LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Baden Powell
Several cobles belonging to Filey were overtaken by bad weather when at sea on the 1st May.
The wind suddenly increased to a strong northerly gale and the boats which were to the north of the " Brig " were able to...
A Large Coble
On the 2nd February it was blowing a whole E.N.E.
gale and a very heavy sea was running in the bay, endangering a large coble which had been left at anchor, and was then in broken water. As it was not safe for the fishermen...
Eagle
MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — The Life-boat Heywood was launched at midnight on the 1st June, in a heavy sea and a fresh E. wind, to the assistance of the schooner Eagle, of Portmadoc, which had stranded at Saltfleet. The boat was pulled out...
William
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—The smack William, of Carnarvon, bound from Youghal for Garston, timber laden, wasobserved stranded about a quarter of a mile from the Ehosneigir Life-boat house, during thick weather, a S.S.W. wind, and a rough sea, on...
M. A. Watkin
On the 19th November, the No. 1 Lifeboat Mark Lane was called out on service at 10 A.M., by signals shown by the dandy M. A. Watkin, of Grimsby, which, having lost all her canvas in the storm of the previous night, had been compelled to run...
Elizabeth
TENBY.—The trawler Elizabeth, of Tenby, which was lying at anchor while a whole gale was blowing from the N.N.B., with a very heavy sea, on the 18th November, hoisted a signal of distress as her anchor was dragging. At 11 A.M., the Life-boat...
Coxswain E. Matthews, of the Lizard, Cornwall
Coxswain Edwin Matthews, of the Lizard, has died at the age of eighty- seven. He became second coxswain in 1867, and coxswain in 1876, retiring in 1900 after thirty-three years as an officer ot the life-boat. During that time the station...
Category: Obituaries
Douglass's
During a strong northerly gale with a ground swell, on the 15th October, anxiety was felt for the Douglass's, of North Sunderland, which was the only fishing boat at sea. She could be seen hauling her lines and would not be able to make...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the west coast of Ireland. He has been cox- swain since October, 1928, and is one of the seven coxswains who won the gold medal for conspicuous gallantry during the war of...
Category: Articles
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.25 on the night of the 12th of August, 1949, a request was received from the county officer of St. John's Ambulance for the use of the life-boat to fetch a sick woman from Herm. She was a Giiernsey...