LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aarla
A NINE HOURS' SEARCH Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—A few minutes after five in the morning of the 17th of June, 1947, information was received through Portpatrick Radio Station and the coastguard, from a vessel, eight and a half...
Windermere
NEW EOMHET, KENT.—Distress signals having been shown by the barque Windermere, of Newcastle, bound from London for Eangoon, with a general cargo, during a moderate E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the 17th of January, the crew of the Sandal...
Drifter
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past four in the afternoon of. the 18th of May, 1949, a resident of Leigh reported that a yacht had capsized about two miles off Leigh and that a man was clinging to her. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...
Sea Lion
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 10.20 on the night of the 10th of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen off Manghold Head. At 10.45 the life- boat Thomas Corbett was launched in a moderate sea....
Zuider Kruis
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.55 on the night of the 17th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on Goat Island in Stornoway Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out...
Newcastle (1)
NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN On the 30th January, 1941, the Newcastle life-boat landed the crew of fourteen of the motor ship Sandhill, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
COXSWAIN PATRICK MURPHY was awarded a clasp to his bronze...
Category: Medals
Tynemouth
TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND On the 8th December, 1940, the Tynemouth life-boat rescued the crew of twentytwo of the motor vessel Oslo Fjord, of Norway.
MR. EDWARD SELBY DAVIDSON, honorary secretary, was awarded the bronze...
Category: Medals
Flexible tribute funds
An RNLI Forever by the Sea fund is a positive and powerful way to honour the life of someone special who has passed away. Friends and family can donate in memory of their loved one, for example on a birthday or anniversary, and watch the...
Category: Articles
Gyda
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The brig Gyda, of Swendsale, Norway, stranded half a mile north of this place on the 18th January. In consequence of the snowdrift it was found impossible to take the Edward BirKbeck Life-boat to the scene of the wreck on...
The No. 1 Pilot Boat
Workington, Cumberland.—At 9.55 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1952, the Walney Island coastguard telephoned that the No. 1 pilot boat, of Workington, with two men on board, had broken down off Workington, and at ten o'clock...