LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Appeal updates
After 3 years of fundraising, Angle’s new Tamar class lifeboat Mark Mason is now on service at the Pembrokeshire station.
The fundraising was begun at grassroots level, with the launch of the Tamar4Angle appeal locally and...
Category: Articles
Past Explained:
Past explained: the old lifeboathouse at Brook on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where a pulling lifeboat was kept betweeen 1860 and 1937, has for a long time had no indication of what the building was originally used for. Tourists... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Vessels (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 1st of October, 1952, the life-boat bowman, reported that the wind had freshened, causing a heavy sea and swell. The local fishing vessels were at sea, and at 10.0 the No. 1 life- boat Mary...
A Barge
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A barge had been reported sinking, but she had sunk, and there was no sign of her crew when the life-boat arrived. A steamer had gone ashore, but tugs were standing by her and she did not need the...
A Motor Launch
On the morning of the 23rd December, Coxswain Cook was called up by a messenger, who reported that a motor launch was on the rocks near the Lower Sandgate Road. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled and the boat proceeded to the...
Obituary
THE Institution very much regrets the death of Lieut.-Co'l. H. W. Madoc, C.B.E., M.V.O., for twenty-three years honorary secretary of the Douglas, Isle of Man, life-boat station; Mr. John Prior, for twenty-five years secretary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Three Brothers
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 3rd of May, 1954, the auxiliary ketch Three Brothers, of Rye, broke from her moorings in the harbour. A whole gale was blowing from the north, and the sea was...
Shamrock Cruiser II
Ramsgate., Kent.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 15th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser, flying a distress signal, seemed to be drifting. At 5.22 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Captain Mark Kerr DFC RN
Captain Mark Kerr DFC RN, honorary secretary of Clovelly lifeboat station from 1973 to 1983..
Category: Obituaries
Scaup
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1954, the Sheerness police reported that a yacht was in distress off Minster. At 3.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched. The sea was very...