LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Temperance Pledge
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—While a strong breeze was blowing from N.W. by W., increasing to a gale and accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 18th January, the coxswain of the Life-boat, who was watching, observed the side-lights of a vessel on the...
Fishing Boats
Early on the morning of the 3rd February the fishing fleet went to sea in fine weather, but about 9 A.M. the sea got up sud- denly and made the approach to the harbour very dangerous for small craft. Most of the boats had returned by then,...
Midge
On the afternoon of the 12th September the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, went out in the motor boat Midge, with a friend and two members of his staff, to fish. The engine broke down and the boat began...
Coral Isle
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1959, the assistant honorary secretary was informed that a message had been received from the fishing vessel Coral Isle of North Shields that one of her fishermen was...
A Raft
DECEMBER 2ND. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
A ship’s boat had been reported at sea, but the life-boat only found an empty raft which she could not bring in owing to the rough sea.
- Rewards, £17 4s....
Stornoway's Arun Sir Max Aitken
Stornoway's Arun SirMaxAitken Is pictured from aboard the stranded merchant vessel Golf Star as the lifeboat stands by in worsening weather on 21 October 1995.
The Antiguan registered Golf Star was on passage from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dominance
Arbroath, Angus. At six o'clock on the evening of the 9th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore half a mile east of Arbroath. The life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched at 6.11 in...
Edith, of Portrush
NOVEMBER 10TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO.
DOWN. At four in the afternoon a small fishing boat was seen to be aground at Ringley Ridge. A moderate north-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm, but it was thought advisable to...
Lilida
Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...
Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore
ONE of the most distinguished of Irish coxswains, John Boyle, of Arranmore, died on the 5th of September, 1949, at the age of 57. He served as an officer of the life-boat for 23 years, as bow- man from 1926 to 1928, and then as coxswain...
Category: Obituaries