LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Torbay, South Devon.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat with five people on board had broken down, and that the people on board were waving their arms. The life-boat...
Captain Howard Rowley, R.N.
ALL who were connected with the Lifeboat Service twenty years ago will have heard with regret of the death, on the 4th -of April, of Captain Howard Fiennes Julius Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.
He was in his eightieth year, and it...
Category: Obituaries
Moringen
ABERDOVEY.—The brig Moringen, of Drammen, Norway, timber laden, stranded in a strong N.N.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 16th June and became a total wreck. On receipt of news of the casualty, the Life-boat Thomas Nieeolls Stratford was...
By Land and Sea
John Dewar and Loren Sutherland from the small island of Burray (one of the Orkney Islands) decided to raise funds for the RNLI and between them topped £1,000 in sponsorship money.
John swam from the neighbouring... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barton Queen
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on loth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler Barton Queen was aground on Newcombe Sand two hundred yards off the harbour entrance. The life-boat Frederick Edward...
July (1)
JULY MEETING SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX About 3.50 in the afternoon of the 25th May, 1940, a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, capsized when they were changing seats about 400 yards off shore. They succeeded in reaching a boat...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS.—A gale of wind having sprung up on the morning of the 1st April, and three of the cobles engaged in the salmon fishing being in danger of being swamped by the heavy seas in taking the bar, the Life-boat Palmerston was launched...
Lucille
On the llth November, when the fishing-boats were returning in a gale of wind and a heavy sea, one of them capsized. As the others were seen to be in considerable danger the Life-boat George Leicester was promptly launched and proceeded to...
A Dinghy (4)
SEARCH FOR TWO BOYS IN DINGHY Padstow, Cornwall. At 11.50 on the night of the 2nd May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the harbour master at Newquay had reported that two boys, who had left Newquay at 8.30 in the...
Sailing Dinghies
Walmer, Kent. At 4.40 on the after- noon of the 6th August, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that some of the sailing dinghies taking part in a race from Deal to Ramsgate were missing. There was a fresh south-westerly...