LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
If you were rescued by the RNLI, would you thank those involved? Surprisingly, many people don't. Dave Gambell, rescued by Yarmouth lifeboat, is an exception.
What follows is his letter of gratitude to the crew,...
Tommy Dawson,
September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland lifeboat. Tommy first became a ere w member at North Sunderland in 1927, where in 1939 he became bowman. In 1951 he was appointed second coxswain and in 1955 was appointed coxswain, a...
Category: Obituaries
Watchful
PROPELLER FOULED BY FISHING NET Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At mid- night on the 17th of October, 1947, it was learned that the motor fishing boat Watchful had not returned, and at 9.40 next morning the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...
Pilot
OCTOBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At about 10 P.M. a message was received from Ross Lighthouse that a vessel was showing distress flares north of Ross Island. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor...
Cruiser, of Hartlepool
The Bradford life-boat again went out and saved the brig Cruiser, of Hartlepool, and her crew of 6 men, which vessel had stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
Plowman, of Yarmouth
The Dvff life-boat at Great Yar- mouth was the means of taking the smack Plowman, of Yarmouth, and her craw of 7 men safely into Lowestoft Harbour.
Ashore at Bolt Head, Devon
The Lowestoft steam drifter Charter, wrecked on January 7th, 1933. The Salcombe Motor Life-boat stood by, but the crew got ashore unaided.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wrecked!
The German oil-tanker D. L. Harper on the Crane Rock, near The Lizard. - View image in PDF
(See page 513.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosalie
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a man reported that a small vessel four miles east-south-east of Walney light- house was flying a flag and appeared to be in difficulties. At three o'clock the...
Equerry
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the harbour master reported that the trawler Equerry, of Grimsby, which was in Peterhead Bay on her way to the fishing grounds, had an injured man on board....