LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frobisher
PAKEFIELD, SUFFOLK. — During a strong wind from E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 24th March flares were seen from a vessel on the South Newcombe Sands. The Life-boat's crew were summoned, and without delay the Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary...
A Boat
UNABLE TO ROW Redcar, Yorkshire. At 3.30 p.m. on I3th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties near Huntcliff, Saltburn.
There was a fresh west-north-westerly breeze with...
Petite Marie-Claude
Plymouth, Devon. At 9.54 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Rame Head informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Petite Marie-Claude had an engine failure off Looe Bay three and a half miles...
A Small Motor Boat
APRIL 21ST. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 4.50 in the afternoon the life-boat motor-mechanic saw a small motor boat about three miles south-south-east of the harbour with a large piece of cloth fixed to a pole. At 5.15 the motor life-boat...
Coxswain Joseph Parkinson
Coxswain Joseph Parkinson of Lytham-St.-Anne's died while still in the service of the Institution on the 17th of March, 1959, at the age of 59.
He was assistant mechanic from 1931 to 1957 and coxswain from 1947 to...
Category: Obituaries
A British Anson Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE, AND BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE. A British Anson aeroplane had crashed into the sea and both life-boats were launched. The Aberystwyth boat put out without waiting for the secondcoxswain and assistant...
News and Views
Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.
The...
Category: Articles
Zinita
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had anchored off the East pier, but that the anchor was dragging. The yacht signalled for help, and at 4.35 the life-boat...
Gay Gull and a Fishing Boat
TWO SERVICES IN BAD WEATHER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 a.m.
on Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the coxswain was told that a local fishing boat which had left for the fishing ground eight miles north of Wicklow had not...
A Small Boat (2)
APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb...