LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fidra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.39 on the morning of the 30th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Fidra of Leith that one of her crew was in pain with...
Kragero (1)
BARMOUTH and PWLLHELI.—On the 2nd August the Life-boats Jones Gibb, stationed at Barmouth, and Margaret Plait stationed at Pwllheli, proceeded to the assistance of the barque Kragero, of Krageio, bound from Wilmington, South Carolina, for...
With Coxswain Thomas Cocking and Members of the St. Ives Crew
Behind the Duke are Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution, and the Mayor of the City of Westminster. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
With the Widow of Coxswain Patton, of Runswick
At the annual meeting in 1934 after presenting to Mrs. Fatten the gold medal posthumously awarded to her husband for his gallantry in sacrificing his own life to save a lame man from the sinking steamer Disperser of West Hartlepool, on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
L.C.G.3.
FEBRUARY 4TH - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.55 in the morning the coastguard reported that a landing craft was dragging her anchor in the harbour and said that the life-boat might be needed. Another message at 4.20 asked her to...
Two Rowing Boats
APRIL 13TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 2.51 in the afternoon a message was received from the Torquay coastguard that a small rowing boat was waterlogged 100 yards S.W. of Orestone and that men were swimming in the water. The boat belonged to the...
The S.S. Flying Enterprise (2)
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
Juliana, of Riga
On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the ...
Weymouth Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
Weymouth lifeboat Tony Vandervell returns to Weymouth Harbour with the Poole-based yacht Piepenhannes in tow. The yacht fouled a propeller on a pot line at Lulworth Cove on September 6, 1987 and ran aground. A local fishing boat helped her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rivulet
North Deal, Kent.—The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at about 1 A.M. on the 3rd October, in response to signals from the Gull Lightship, during a strong westerly breeze. The boat proceeded to the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and...