LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Agnes, of Preston
MARCH 29TH . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 3.50 in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat was ashore on the Burbo Bank and that seas were washing over her. Two men and a boy were on board. A strong west-southwest,...
The S.S. Barren Hill
Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1949, a vessel was seen to be stopped about five miles oft shore, and it was thought that she was on Sheringham Shoal. The life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.25, in...
Farewell!
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 78 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1931 62,687 Farewell! By Sir George Shee, Secretary of the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...
Category: Services
Marie Stuart
MARGATE.—On the 2nd February, during a S.W. wind, the weather and sea being moderate, signals were observed from the Tongue Lightship about 7 P.M., in reply to which the Quiver Life-boat proceeded to her, and learned that a vessel was in...
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.
He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...
Category: Obituaries
Services by Shore-Boats (4)
FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At about 8 P.M. on the 19th April, 1939, a small yawl with a party of five boys on board got into difficulties and could not make Fraserburgh Harbour. The sea was choppy with a squally increasing S.S.W. breeze....
Category: Services
Letters
THANKS TO 'WONDERFUL PEOPLE' While on holiday in the Isle of Man in September we visited the Life-boat station at Port Erin. We read the boat's record with great interest, and the members on duty tending the boat were welcoming,...
Category: Correspondence
Walker II
Margate, Kent.—At 12.50 in the after- noon, on the 3rd of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the local pilot boat Walker II had broken down and was drifting on to the Nayland Rocks. Two motor boats had gone to her help, but could not...
Fishing Boats (6)
Whitby, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 2nd January, 1939, anumber of fishing boats went to sea.
At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the...