LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
The fishing-boats put to sea in the early morning of the 21st April, but as there was a strong N.N.E. breeze and a heavy sea, the majority of them con- sidered it advisable to return, and did so. At about 10 A.M. two of the boats were...
A Steamer (11)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
A steamer had been torpedoed, and one of her boats with fifteen survivors in it was reported drifting two miles north of Loophead.
The life-boat could not find them, and...
Hermod
The Life - boat Charles and Eliza Laura landed the crews of the schooner Hermod, of Marstal, six in number, on the 12th December, during a moderate N.N.E.
gale. The vessel at the time was bound from Troon to Lisbon, but was...
A Welsh Coxswain and His Motor Mechanic
Coxswain Richard Jones, of Holyhead. with Motor Mechanic Gilbert E. Barrs, now at New Brighton, (See pages 82 on/99.) B«. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The New Rod Aerial
On the light self-righting life-boat at Bridlington. The loud-hailer is in front of the mast.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Pinnace from H.M.S. Verulam
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At twelve minutes past midnight on the 1st of June, 1953, the pier nightwatchman told the life-boat motor mechanic that the pinnace from H.M.S. Verulam, which was anchored in Llandudno Bay, had sent an S O S...
Sandwich
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.49 on the after- noon of the 14th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the harbour office had reported a boat in need of help off West Cliff lift in Pegwell Bay. At 3.57 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
Jaymac
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.7 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1951, the Lade coastguard reported the motor yacht Jaymac, of London, in need of help six miles south-west of Dunge- ness. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...
The S.S. Ballyhalbert
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1958, the Portpatrick coastguard told the honor- ary secretary that the S.S. Ballyhalbert of Belfast was aground hah0 a mile north of Ardrossan. At three o'clock the...
Nona
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was ashore at Cleats Point two hundred yards off shore.
The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...