LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch
Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.40 on the night of the llth of February, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals between Bognor and Littlehampton, and the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11 o'clock.
A...
During Hyde Branch
How well do you know your onions? During Hyde branch's Christmas fair held at the town hall one of the attractions was to 'guess the weight of the onions'. Home-made cakes and preserves, crafts, plants, good-as-new items and RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an important reason for...
Category: Advertisement
Maria
KESSINGLAND.—At 1 P.M. on the 14th October the brig Maria, of and from Hartlepool, bound to London with coal, having struck on Covehitheness Point, and being in a sinking condition, made signals of distress, and ran on shore on the beach,...
A Latvian Cargo Ship
Latvian ship listing Barra lifeboat escorted a cargo ship and her 10 crew to safety on 6 January after she was looking close to capsize. The Latvian ship's timber cargo had shifted causing her to lean 50 degrees to port in 8m seas and...
Coxswain H. J. Gawn
Coxswain Harry James Gawn, of Bembridge, who died on the 17th June, 1962, had served as coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat for 22$ years.
During this period Bembridge life-boat were launched on service 76 times and rescued...
Category: Obituaries
Jachin
At 6.30 P.M. on the 13th March during a S.W. gale, information was received that a barge— the Jachin, of Maldon — bound from London to Newport, Isle of Wight, with a cargo of wheat, had struck the bar and was driving into the Bay. The Motor...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...
Teal
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.15 on the night of the 4th of September, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a smallsailing boat was drifting off Rhos- colyn with two youths aboard. At 9.31 the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched...