LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services (1)
St Mary's Scilly Isles Some idea of the conditions during the Bronze Medal service by the Arun class Robert Edgarto the yacht Sacaro/ecan be gauged from these photographs. The pictures show the moment the 25ft Folkboat was overwhelmed...
Category: Services
Derby Branch Commissioned Roderick Lovesey the Derbyshire Artist
Derby branch commissioned Roderick Lovesey, the Derbyshire artist, to paint a lifeboat scene. A raffle for the original oil painting, The Rescue, is just ending, but a limited edition of 250 full colour prints (19'/2inx.26in) each signed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sealink Ferries
Richard Gardner brandishes a cheque for £300 raised from his colleagues aboard the Sealink ferries Horsa, of which he is second officer, and St Christopher and members of the Dreamland Squash Club after taking part in a mini marathon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Thomas Cocking St.Ives
Coxswain Thomas Cocking, St Ives On January 3, 1984, Coxswain Cocking, in two separate services, both carried out in a north-northwesterly strong gale, force 9, heavy seas and shallow water, first rescued seven men from a tug being driven on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 579, 588, 593, the following launches on service were made during the months September to November, 1968, inclusive: Aberdovey, Merionethshire...
Category: Services
Aberdeen City
THIRTEEN TRAWLERMEN SAVED Stronsay, Orkneys. At 1.30 on the morning of Monday the 16th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone call from the Kirkwall coastguard saying that the trawler Aberdeen City, 101 tons, which was...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 15th May, 1938, an outboard motor boat capsized about two hundred yards off shore and four and a half miles west of Clacton. A slight S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
Julien Marie
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was launched at 5.15 A.M., on the 5th February, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E., and proceeded to the brigantine, Julien Marie, of Auray, coal-laden from Swansea, bound for...
Cambus Omay
At 6.45 p.m. on I4th September, 1966, the sailing yacht Cambus Omay, with a crew of three, asked for the assistance of the life-boat off St. Catherine's Point as her engines had broken down and her sails had been carried away. The...
A Ship’s Boat
APRIL 22ND. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
At 7.32 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the St. Ismael’s coastguard that the Royal Observer Corps at Carmarthen had reported throughthe Ferryside Police that a...