LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.N.L.B. 44-002
At 1.20 p.m. on ist November, 1966, information was received that the recently built life-boat, provisionally designated R.N.L.B. 44-002, which was on trials from the shipyard, had trouble with one of the engines which was being...
The King and the Coxswain
WHEN His Majesty the King was staying for a few days at Londeshorough Park last October, John Owston, the Coxswain superintendent of the Scar- borough Life-boat, was sent for by Lord Londesborough to assist the shooting parties. After the...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To W. J. HANNANT, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 11 years as Bowman of the Hasborough Life-boat, a Pension.
To CHARLES H. HARVEY, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after...
Category: Awards
Mahe
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 6.59 p.m.
on 16th April, 1969, it was learnt that a two-masted schooner yacht had broken down about one mile south of Tol Pedn. The life-boat was requested to stand by. The yacht then resumed her...
Thomas and Jane
On the 1st January, 1861 the sloop Thomas and Jane, of Dundee carried away her main boom, and having nearly four feet of water in her hold, and the master and crew being quite exhausted hoisted a signal of distress, which was seen from...
Boats & Bits
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Brothers
During a moderate northerly gale with a choppy sea on the 30th July the ketch Brothers, of Cardigan, commenced to drag her anchors. As the vessel was on a lee shore signals of distress were made, and in response the crew of the Life-boat...
A Canvas Canoe
JULY 17TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.
LOUTH. Three young men had put to sea in a canvas canoe, but lost their lives before the life-boat could reach them. - Rewards, £10 12s. 6d..
The New 47-Feet Life-Boat
A NEW 47-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of her kind, completed her trials during the summer of 1955. She has now been sent to her station at Thurso, Caithness-shire.
The new life-boat is a development of the 46-feet...
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Morning Star
DECEMBER 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
During the morning while the fishing boats were out an east-south-east wind sprang up, causing a heavy surf on the beach. As the boat Morning Star, with a crew of three, had not returned by...