LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jules Deyne and Fulham VIII
The Humber, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a cargo vessel and a trawler had been in collision and that the skipper of the trawler needed...
Filey's Boathouse
Fi/ey's boathouse is not as old as it looks - it was in fact completed in 1991- and was designed to fit a very restricted site on the promenade, as can be seen in the aerial photographs on page 27.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gallantry at Newhaven.
The Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, and its bronze medal to each of the seven members of his crew, for standing by one of H.M trawlers in a rough sea, and seeing her to a safe...
Category: Articles
Two Fishing Boats
In the early morning of the 9th January part of the local fishing fleet put out to the fishing grounds, but after going a few miles five of the boats decided to return on account of the very strong S. wind and short sea. Nine others went on,...
Lady Crab
About a fortnight later, on Saturday June 18, Caroline Finch was on passage to St Helier, in Jersey, on one leg of her extended crew training passage to station; she was under the command of Christopher Price, deputy divisional inspector of...
Kittiwake
Weymouth, Dorset.—-On the after- noon of the 5th of April, 1947, the small yacht Ki tiwake, with one man wi board, lost her sails in Weymouth Bay and ran on a sandbank. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately tough sea and...
Two Generous Soldiers
IT is very pleasant to be able to publish the following letter, which gives good proof of the generous spirit which so often animates those who are ready to assist in saving life without any thought of fee or reward. The signatories are two...
Category: Articles
Station Profile
Skegness is a holidaymaker's town with tourism being by far the main industry. The winter population of just 15,000 rises to around 170,000 during the summer bringing major traffic problems - which can badly delay the crew on their way...
Category: Articles
Diana
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
No. 1305
MOTOR LAUNCH ON THE SCROBY SANDS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Shortly after three in the morning of the 10th of June, 1947, the coast- guard reported flares, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was...