LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boston Heron
MINISTER OF TRANSPORT EXPRESSES THANKS Stornoway, Hebrides. At 9.30 on the evening of the 3rd December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a mayday distress signal had been heard from a vessel and that they were trying...
Willie Parr
WILLIE PARR Lifeboatman Willie Parr* sailed into history when a brewery decided to immortalise him.
*The story of Willie Parr appeared in the Manchester edition of the Daily Mirror on December 13,...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (2)
MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. Two boys had taken a rowing boat from Babbacombe Beach, but the life-boat could not find them. The police discovered the wreckage of the boat, but as no one had been reported missing it was assumed that the boys...
Loango
On the 7th May a strong gale was blowing from E.S.E., and several vessels sheltering in the Bay were seen to be riding heavily to their anchors. Shortly before 2 P.M.
one of the schooners began to drag her anchors, and her...
Lady Olwen Carey Evans
Lady Olwen Carey Evans, DBE, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president and chairman of South Caernarvonshire ladies' guild, surrounded by her family on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday; the card she is holding is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Matam II
French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...
Scimitar
DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with...
Mary Robinson
TO NORTH SHIELDS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.20 a.m. on 3rd June, 1964, the crew of the coble XmasRose informed the honorary secretary that the coble Mary Robinson was still at sea. It was almost low water; the sea was rough due to a...
Sea King
During a moderate S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 3rd January, the steam- trawler Sea King, of Hull, was observed in the offing making signals for a pilot.
The sea was too rough for an ordinary shoreboat to put off,...
Marian Ellen
DUTCH TRAWLER Walmer, Kent. At 8.44 a.m. on 5th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the East Goodwin lightvessel reported an unidentified vessel, apparently aground on the Goodwin Sands, in a position west...