LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss H B Allen (Above)
Miss H. B. Allen (above) receives three cheers after the naming of her lifeboat, the 47ft Tyne class, James Burrough, (above I.). - View image in PDF
Photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (5)
Cromarty, Cromartyshire. At 6.24 on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was adrift in a dinghy east of Rosemarkie. At 6.48 the life-boat Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will slipped her...
Colonel Moir
In answer to signals of distress, and a message from the Lighthouse, the. Life-boat Helen Smitten was launched shortly after 6 P.M. on the 26th March. The Ketch Colonel Moir, in a dismasted state, was found drifting helplessly about three...
Poole - Atlantic 75 Friendly Forester II
Poole's busy new Atlantic 75 took a short breather on 15 August 1995 for her official naming ceremony, but even before the champagne was dry on her bow she was off on another shout! The lifeboat was donated by the Ancient Order of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crocodile
PENARTH.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 7th March, in answer to signals of distress, the Life-boat Joseph Denman was launched, and boarded the brig Crocodile, of Dartmouth, which vessel had got ashore on the west end of Cardiff sands. A strong gale was...
T.I.D. 66
TUG TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 2.24 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about six miles east of Berwick,...
Gifts from Crews
ON 12th July, 1926, the Rhoscolyn Life-boat launched to and stood by the S.B. Kvrkwynd, of Glasgow, which had stranded, during a thick fog, two miles to the east of Rhoscolyn. The Life-boat returned arid, later, made a second trip to the...
Category: Donations
Increased Retaining Fees for Coxswains and Others
IN the August issue of The Life-Boat it was announced that the Committee of Management had decided, as from April, 1920, to give a further increase of 25 per cent, in the rewards paid to Coxswains and crews for going afloat to save life....
Category: Articles
Gordon
On the evening of the 10th May the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on the Brake Sands with a motor boat standing by.
A strong squally N.W. wind was blow- ing, with a very heavy sea, and it was raining. A little...
An Aircraft (1)
Wells, and Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.48 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic of the Wells life- boat that an aircraft had crashed into the sea off South Race Bank buoy. At eleven...