LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
James Bower Awards
COXSWAIN Samuel Cunningham of Portrush, Mr. Thomas Carter and Mr.
Charles Henderson have received gifts from the James Michael Bower Endow- ment Fund established by the Peninsu- lar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company....
Category: Awards
Mayflower
MOTOR BOAT BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At about eleven o'clock on the night of the 13th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress burning flares two miles south-west by west of Newhaven, and the motor life-boat John and...
Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th December, 1961, the second coxswain discussed with the honorary secretary the possible danger to the fishing fleet at sea, as the weather was growing worse, and it was...
Caledonia
During a whole W.S.W. gale on the 6th January a fishing-boat was observed in the offing in a helpless condition, with her foremast carried away. In response to her signals the No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was promptly despatched to her...
Quest and Prosperity
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1948, the wind increased to a west- north-west gale while several fishing cobles were at sea, and at three o'clock the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was...
A Boat
RESCUED BY HELICOPTER At 7.4 pon. on I2th July, 1964, a local pleasure boat proprietor told the honorary secretary that a hirer of one of his boats was missing and that the help of the lifeboat was needed to find him. The tide had been...
Marigold
APRIL 22ND. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Early in the afternoon a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged. She was kept under observation by the coastguard and lifeboatmen.
A strong N.W....
A Fishing Yawl and a Motor Boat
ESCORT FOR YAWL AND MOTOR BOAT Longhope, Orkney. At 10.45 a.m. on Monday the 29th of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the bowman of the life-boat that a small fishing yawl was being towed by a motor boat and they were in...
College Principal Sue Hennessy
College Principal Sue Hennessy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Dover, Kent. At 11.40 on the morning of the 29th of November, 1958, the coastguard at Sandgate reported that two boys were cut off by the tide near St. Margarets. At 11.50 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a moderate sea, towing a...