LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rennyhill
Aberdeen.—At 2.11 early on the morning of the 29th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that he had heard long and short blasts on a siren from a vessel near the harbour or lighthouse. He later stated that the lighthouse keeper...
Alice
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The John Turner Turner Life-boat was launched at 3.30 A.M. on the 6th November, and brought ashore the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Alice, of and from Dinorwic, for Douglas, with slates, which was dragging...
Old Goody
RAMSGATE.—On the 8th December, the Life-boat Bradford went out at 6.30 A.M. in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, and rescued the crew consisting of seven men of the brigantine, Old Goody, of Faversham, bound from Hartlepool for Ramsgate...
Coxswain Swan Presents the Challenge Shield
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Category: Photographs
Mother's Joy
Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 10.50 on the morning of the 12th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Amble life-boat was on service searching for the fishing coble Mother's Joy but that she had not managed...
The S.S. Stanlake (1)
MAY 24TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At 6.15 P.M. it was reported by the coastguard that the firing of rifles or rockets had been heard in Broad Bay. Later a message was received from another source that a vessel was ashore near the...
Santa Lucia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the coastguards reported that a motor yacht was drifting out of control about five miles off Warden Point, one mile south of Red Sands Fort, and flying a flag from...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the 23rd of January, 1953, the Irish Lights Commissioners asked if the life- boat would land a man from the Black- water Lightvessel. His sister had died in Wexford, and the Commissioners' own boat was...
Khedive
PALUNO, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock on the morning of the, 21st July, during squally weather and a heavy eea, a barque was observed aground on the Hasborough Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat, the British Workman, was launched and proceeded to the...
Charles H. Barrett
Charles H. Barrett, M.B.E., hono- rary secretary and treasurer of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, died on the 26th of August, 1954, at the age of 74. His successor, Mr. C. J.
Quinton, M.B.E., writes: "Since 1938...
Category: Obituaries