LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vixen
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 6th August the Bude coastguard reported that a small yacht, with four men on board, had left Bude for Boscastle some hours earlier, but had not arrived, and that a light had been seen off Carnbeak. A...
Mr. Alfred Belk, Hartlepool
Mr. Alfred Belk, of Hartlepool, an alderman, borough recorder, town clerk and justices' clerk, who died on 4th December, 1937, at the age of eighty- four, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Hartlepool station five years...
Category: Obituaries
Pamela and Water Lily
Ilfracombe, Devon.—Shortly after 3 P.M. on the 18th November, 1938, a southerly wind was rapidly rising to a gale, with a rough sea. Three rowing fishing boats could be seen at sea by the coastguard, and at 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Lynx
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.10 P.M. on the 16th July, 1939, a message was received from the Broughness coastguard that distress signals had been heard in the Pentland Firth. This was confirmed by a wireless message from a trawler saying...
Twenty-Five Years As Chairman
IN May of this year Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., completed twenty-five years as chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
There have been, including him, eight chairmen in the 124 years since the Institution...
Category: Articles
Captain Andrew Stephen, of Fraserburgh
CAPTAIN ANDREW STEPHEN, harbour- master of Fxaserburgh, who died on the 30th of December, 1948, was joint honorary secretary of the life-boat station for over eleven years. He was appointed towards the end of 1936, and retired at the...
Category: Obituaries
A Racing Dinghy
Exmouth, Devon.—At 11.25 on the night of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported that a racing dinghy, with two men on board, had left Sidmoutb at 8.20 for Beer, but had not been seen since. A search was made by a Beer fishing boat...
Robina
Cromarty.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 20th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore off Arder- sier and needed help. At 5.10 the life-boat James Macfee put out. The sea was rough, a gale...
Oarsman
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.36 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1959, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that a seaman aboard the tanker Oarsman of London had fallen thirty feet from the mast on to...
Rachel Douglas
Eyemouth, Berwickshire ; and Ber- wick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. At 11.25 on the night of the 15th of February, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary at Eyemouth that a boat was in distress four miles east of Burnmouth. At...