LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunshine, of Bridgwater
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.2 P.M. on the 3rd December, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor ketch anchored in the harbour was flying a signal of distress. A whole N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain. The...
Ploughboy
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the llth of February, 1955, a man rang up to say that the local fishing boat Ploughboy had left for the fishing grounds at four in the morning, with a crew of two, but had not...
Aldershot
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of the 25th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honor- ary secretary that the trawler Aldershot had an injured man aboard, who needed medical assistance, and that she was expected to...
Zircon
On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...
The Seven Gold Medallists
The eight gold medals were presented to seven coxswains. They were Robert Cross, of The Humber, who won the gold medal twice, and also the silver medal, the thanks on vellum and the George Medal, and helped to rescue 244 lives; Henry Blogg,...
Category: Articles
Robert Burgon, Ex-Coxswain at Berwick-on-Tweed
Robert Burgon, at one time Coxswain of the Berwick-on-Tweed Station, was drowned, on the morning of 24th March, with two other men in a motor fishingboat which was swamped by heavy seas and sank when crossing the bar on their way home. Born...
Category: Obituaries
Alauda
WEYMOUTH, DORSET.—During rough weather, the wind blowing dead on shore with a heavy sea, on the 26th February a message was received from the Coastguard stating that a large foreign ship, which afterwards proved to be the Alauda, of Hamburg,...
Catherine Latham
On the evening of the 13th February, Coxswain Robert Leece observed that a schooner, which had been lying in Douglas Outer Harbour for 'some days windbound, was flying signals of distress. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched,...
The S.S. Osterhav
Wick, Caithness-shire. — The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 9 P.M. on the 28th March, in response to a message received through Wick Radio and the coastguard.
A strong S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Snowflake
On the even- ing of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that a schooner, about one mile N.E. of Holyhead breakwater, was dragging her anchor and flying a dis- tress signal. Some of her sails had been blown away. The motor life-boat A.E.D....