LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 4th of January, 1957. the coastguard telephoned to say that the Trinity House Superintendent at Swansea had asked for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick man from the Helwick...
The Crew Approach Cautiously,
The crew approach cautiously, aware that on-board distress flares could explode at any moment. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barrels Lightvessel
Killmore, Co. Wexford - At 5.30 p.m.
on loth October, 1966, the Irish Lights office asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a man off the Barrels lightvessel as he was urgently required in Wexford. The life...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1952, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a patient, who was serious- ly ill, to Lochboisdale. Conditions were not good enough for an aircraft to make...
Viper
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the morning of the llth January, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Viper's engine broke down when she was fishing about half a mile west of Ramore Head. She carried a crew of four. Another fishing boat, The...
Lantyan
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY ALL NIGHT IN FOG Selsey, Sussex. At 9.20 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Niton radio station that the motor vessel Lantyan of Fowey, which had a...
The S.S. Kaida, of Leith
DECEMBER 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
At 9.40 at night the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel off Middleton, and at ten o’clock the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a strong, northerly wind with a...
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: August William Braund, coxswain of Clovelly lifeboat from 1956 to 1968. He had joined the crew in 1922 and served as bowman from 1935 to 1936, as assistant mechanic from 1936 to...
Category: Obituaries
Innishowen
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.15 P.M.
on the 9th January a message was picked up from the motor vessel Innishowen, of Chester, asking for the life-boat to convey an injured man ashore. With a crew of four she was bound with pig...