LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jeannie
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, the coxswain received a message that a fishing boat had been in collision with the trawler Strathdon off Peter- head. The motor fishing vessel Wave Sheaf was...
Award of a Gold Watch
MR. DAVID EVANS, who is second mate of the tanker Pass of Balmaha, has been presented with a gold watch and scroll by the Bulk Oil Steamship Co. Ltd., in recognition of his gallantry in diving overboard while the ship was in the Firth of...
Category: Awards
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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 3.21 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was anchored about a quarter of a mile east of the Medusa buoy and that a fisherman was standing...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.45 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the police telephoned the signal station asking for help in rescuing a man stranded on the cliff face between Moulin Huet and Petit Bot on the south side of the...
A Barge (1)
Youghal, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of November, 1960, the motor mechanic was told that a boat being used in the construction of the new bridge at Youghal was in difficulty and drifting seawards. The weather was cloudy,...
New Sheringham Life-Boat Returns After Her First Service
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Category: Photographs
Eugene Elvire
During the afternoon of the 3rd September the Coxswain of the Life-boat was watching a trawler under sail in the roads, and he saw her run aground on the Newcombe Sands. A flag was hoisted in the vessel's rigging indicating that...
Past and Present
75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
Category: Articles
John Orwell Phillips
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the collier John Orwell Phillips of London that a member of her crew was in a coma...