LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (39)
OC T O B E R 3 1 S T . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A steamer had been in distress off the coast of Tiree, but she was taken in tow by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £20 9s..
Bookshelf
For the enthusiast Lifeboats and Lifeboat Stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland ISBN 0902792 156 by Nicholas Leach Published by The Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society at £4.50 Nicholas Leach has prepared a most useful volume for the...
Category: Articles
Joy
MECHANIC SEES FLARE FROM MOTOR BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 5.6 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1962, the motor mechanic noticed a red flare four miles south of the life-boat station.
He informed the honorary secretary,...
Adieu
BARGE FOUND AWASH AND TAKEN IN TOW Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.24 on the evening of the 16th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the barge Adieu, with a man and a woman on board, was aground north of the south-east...
Lewis 'Tuner' Harrison
Lewis 'Tuner' Harrison - former Cromer lifeboat station Crew Member (alongside Henry Blogg, see page 12).
Category: Obituaries
For Cruise
Mr. John Taylor, aged 16, of Cullercoats, North Shields, whose father, Mr. R. J. Taylor, is a leading member of the Cullercoats ILB and was an officer for 12 years in the conventional life-boat previously stationed there, has been accepted...
Category: Articles
A Ship's Life-Boat and a Motor Boat
TWO BOATS MISSING Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 4.40 a.m. on 3ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two boats, a ship's life-boat in tow of a boat powered by a small outboard motor, were missing on a voyage...
Havlynd
OCTOBER 22ND. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 P.M. the coastguard reported that a Norwegian fishing vessel was shewing signals of distress and apparently had broken down. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1955, a man at Dounreay reported that a rowing boat with a crew of two was in distress one and a half miles north- north-west of Dounreay. At 11.40 the life-boat James...
Cleopas
KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK.—On the 13th January, at 4.15 A.M., the barque Uleopas, of South Shields, bound from Liverpool to South Shields with a cargo of salt, was observed on the Barnard Sand during a S.W. wind and rough sea. In reply to her...