LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gamester
At 11.40 A.M.
on the 17th May, the Coastguard reported that the Royal Sovereign light-vessel was making signals of distress, and the No. 1 Life-boat Olive was launched without loss of time. Shortly before reaching the light...
Fishing Boats (1)
CULLERCOATS.—After the fishing-boats had left the harbour on the morning of the 13th February, a high sea sprung up, rendering it dangerous for the boats to return. It was therefore considered expedient to launch the Life-boat Gooperator No,...
Naming Ceremonies
The new Troon life-boat, James and Barbara Aitken, was named by Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Montrose, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president of the Isle of Arran branch, on the 9th of July, 1955. The cost of this life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Two Fishing Boats
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 20th March a telephone message was received from Gourdon intimating that a very heavy sea was running at the harbour mouth, and that the fishing-boats had been warned not to attempt to come in, and, further, that...
Jack Downing
Jack Downing, president of Stourbridge branch from 1980, chairman from 1963-1980 and founder member from 1953. He was awarded a statuette in 1973, a Gold badge in 1980, a bar to the Gold badge in 1986 and an honorary life governorship in...
Category: Obituaries
St. Joseph
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At eleven o'clock on the night of the 13tn of March, 1950, the Hook Tower light- house keeper reported that a boat was making flares two miles south-west of Hook. The flares and S.O.S. signals on...
St.Cybi
St Cybi (Civil Service No.9) is one of 20 Barnett class boats built.
At 52ft they were the largest RNLI lifeboats at the time and were fine seaboats. All were built with open cockpit steering position but St Cybi was later... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Cabin Cruiser
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1951, the Trevose Head Coastguard tele- phoned that he could see an object which he thought was a Carley float, with someone on it waving, about four miles west of Lower...
H.M. Destroyer Wallace
SEPT. 13TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.
NORFOLK. Early in the morning information was received that two vessels had been in collision off Lowestoft. A N.E.
gale was blowing with...
Coxswain Swarts
While working on the Barry Dock life-boat on I3th January, 1965, Coxswain F. Swarts fell to the concrete floor of the life-boathouse and was severely injured. He died on 22nd January without regaining...
Category: Obituaries