LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (10)
OCT. 27TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
A trawler was reported to be sounding her siren as if in distress, but two trawlers which the life-boat found were neither of them in need of help. - Rewards, £12 15s..
SEARCH FOR FISHERMEN
AT 5.28 p.m. on 25th November, 1970, flares were sighted off the Hook Tower, Co. Waterford.
The life-boat Douglas Hyde slipped her moorings at Dunmore East at 5.37 in a southerly gale with a very rough...
Category: Services
John Lee
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M.
on the 7th of February, and rendered assistance to the schooner John Lee, of and for Blakeney, from Shields, with a cargo of oilcake, which had...
Below: William Hadley Crosses the Line
Below: William Hadley crosses the finish tine of the 2001 Flora London Marathon without a stick of celery in sight'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Life-Boat
OUR boat lies up yonder; She 's the pride of the place; To man her 's our duty, All perils to face.
Across the dark ocean We fearlessly ride; To save life in danger We scorn the fierce tide.
Hark! ...
Category: Poetry
Staronia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 1.42 a.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore off Cairnbulg point.
There was a slight sea. It was high water.
The life-boat The Duchess of Kent proceeded at...
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1955, the Seahouses coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat John Wesley, which had a crew of three, had broken down six miles south-south-east of...
Obituary
Henry Britton, ex-Coxswain at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex; Robert Burgoo, ex-Coxswain at Berwick-on-Tweed; Mr. W. Fortescue BarraJt, Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund; the Lord Brownlow and Mr. Henry Fargus, members of the...
Category: Obituaries
Jane
Shortly before 11 P.M. on the 18th May it was reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress on the north side of the harbour. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched and proceeded to her assistance. The weather was very...
Mary Kate
BROADSTAIRS.—The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched at 4.5 P.M.
on the 14th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from N., accompanied by a heavy sea, a barge, with a signal of distress flying, having been...