LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Gratitude for Life-Boat Services
ON the 8th May, 1930, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat saved the sailing yacht Billikat, and rescued her two occupants. Mr. H. L. Loring, the owner, has become a subscriber of £2 2s. to the Institution.
Category: Donations
Clacton Second Coxswain Drowned.
Frank Castle, second coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for 19 years, lost his life in a gale in April. The life-boat had gone out to a barge, and the coxswain put Castle, the bowman and the assistant motor mechanic on board to help...
Category: Articles
Calshot: (I to R) Crew Members John Street Christopher Smith and Peter King With the Inflatable Boarding Boat In Which They Rescued Three Men from Ashlett Creek on The
Calshot: (I. to r.) Crew Members John Street, Christopher Smith and Peter King with the inflatable boarding boat in which they rescued three men from Ashlett Creek on the night of January 29. Winds were gale force 8 gusting to severe gale... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Faulconnier
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk.
During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather,...
Rigel
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.29 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning red flares half a mile south- east of the pier. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary...
Annie
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The trawler Annie, of Brixham, while attempting to come into Padstow on the 13th February, grounded on the " Doombar." There was a heavy ground sea and strong W.S.W. gale at the time, andshe no sooner struck than...
Coxswain Dave Kennett Takes the Relief Arun Class Margaret Russell Fraser Across Christchurch Bay Conditions In the Area Were Far Worse During the Bronze Me
Coxswain Dave Kennett takes the Relief Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser across Christchurch Bay. - View image in PDF
Conditions in the area were far worse during the Bronze medal service. (Photo Malory Maltby). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morena
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
TWO YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED Hastings, Sussex. At 12.15 p.m. on Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the skipper of the fishing vessel Rose that a small sailing dinghy had apparently capsized and that there was the body of...
A Motor Boat
Falmouth, Cornwall. On the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1959, the police at Falmouth informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had lost her rudder and had struck a rock near Rosemullion Point. The life-boat Crawford and Constance...