LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Death of a Famous Coxswain
COXSWAIN JOHN T. SWAN, of Lowes- toft, one of the most distinguished of English life-boatmen, died on 20th February, at the age of eighty-three.
He was coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat from 1911 to 1924, when he retired...
Category: Obituaries
Isaac Vondy Sir William's Coxswain Was Awarded Three Silver Medals for Gallantry Illustration By Courtesy of the Manx Museum
Isaac Vondy, Sir William's coxswain, was awarded three silver medals for gallantry.
illustration by courtesy of the Manx Museum.
Category: Drawings
A Cabin Cruiser
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1952, the coast- guard saw a cabin-cruiser drifting towards the rocks about two miles south of Berwick. At 5.10 the life- boat...
Angela
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 9.17 on the morning of the 3rd of June, 1951, the Castletown coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was in difficulties off Langness. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat K.T.J.S., on temporary duty at the station,...
The Motor Fishing Cobles Joan and Mary, and Jean and Barbara
JANUARY 27TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
A heavy west-by-north wind rose, with a rough sea, while two motor fishing cobles.
Joan and Mary and Jean and Barbara were at sea, and it was decided to send out the motor...
Nowa Huta and the German Vessel Ingrid Leonhardt
Dover, Kent. At 12.32 early on the morning of the 9th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Polish motor vessel Nowa Huta and the German vessel Ingrid Leonhardt had been in collision ten miles east-by-south of...
Francoise Delille and the U.S. Motor Vessel American Builder (1)
Holyhead, Anglesey and Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6 a.m. on 20th December, 1963, the coastguard informed the Porthdinllaen honorary secretary thata French fishingvesselwas leaking badly thirty miles west of Bardsey...
A Small Sailing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th of November, 1952, the parents of two men who had left on a fishing trip in a small sailing boat that morning reported that their sons had not re- turned. At...
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St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9.29 p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a flare had been seen off Clodgy point. The IRB was launched at 9,35. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched 10...
H.M. Barge Celtic
FEBRUARY 26TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At ten o’clock in the morning the coastguard reported H.M. barge Celtic in difficulties, with a. damaged rudder, about two miles northeast of Berwick High Lighthouse. An eastnorth- east...