LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Richard
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Richard, of Buncorn, coal laden, from Whitehaven for Killough, with a crew of three men, was seen running for the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 16th October....
Ex-Coxswain William Brown, of Cresswell
Ex-coxswain William Brown, of Cresswell, Northumberland, died on the 18th April at the age of seventy-three. He was a member of one of two families, both named Brown, who in that small village compose the Life-boat crew, while the wives,...
Category: Obituaries
Faustona
At 1.15 P.M. on the 8th September the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Point of Ayre light- house that the yacht Faustina, of Fleetwood, with four men on board, was in distress off Port Cranstal, and wanted...
Mizpah and Ocean Gift
On the 17th November the motor fishing boat Mizpah, of Newhaven, which was fishing off the Seven Sisters, got into difficulties through the failure of her engine. A moderate westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 8.21 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized off Ness Point. A gentle S.W.
breeze was blowing, but the...
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Selsey, Sussex.—18th August, 1938.
At about 4 P.M. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that two women bathers were in difficulties off the West Beach, Selsey.
A moderate...
A Dinghy and a Salvage Lighter
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 21st of September, 1953, the Ryde police rang up to say that a man was missing in a dinghy between No Man's Fort and Horse Sand Fort. At 8.51 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched....
A Rowing Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.50 in the early morning on the 26th of Feb- ruary, 1950, the coastguard at Southend Pier Head reported that a man and his two boys, who had left Sheerness during the afternoon in a rowing boat to go to Dead...
Maeve
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 5.42 in the morning of the 8th of January, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Maeve, of Killybegs, had wirelessed that she was drifting ashore at Inistrahull Island and needed help, and at 5...
Schilleen
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1954, the life-boat coxswain reportedthat while he was on his way in from sea in his fishing boat, he had seen the yacht Schilleen in a dangerous position about...