LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mayflower
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.52 on the night of the 7th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Mayflower, which had gone with a crew of five, to SuUskcr Rock for Solan-geese, was overdue. A...
Edmond Hugo Stinnes
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 29th January the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned that the steamer Edmond Hugo Stinnes, of Hamburg, had sent out a wireless message that she was in distress, with a broken...
All adrift
22 October 2011: Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat crew responded to the call for help from a cruiser with engine failure. She was drifting quickly and her crew suffering severe seasickness in the turbulent seas. The lifeboat towed her to...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (111)
JULY 31ST. - THE LIZARD, CORN-WALL. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but when the life-boat reached the position given she found naval boats searching, and after a time returned to her station. - Rewards, £14...
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: May 1996 Lord Margadale, president of the Isle of Islay station branch since 1934. He was awarded the council record of thanks in 1955 and gold badge in 1994.
Cyril Sidney...
Category: Obituaries
Called to a Man Overboard from a 14' Boat Offtunstall on April 18 In Moderate to Fresh North-Easterly Breezes and Rough Sea Withernsea Crew Members and Shore H
Called to a man overboard from a 14' boat offTunstall on April 18 in moderate to fresh north-easterly breezes and rough sea, Withernsea crew members and shore helpers rushed the ILB down to the surf.
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Category: Photographs
Friends, of Lyne
At daylight on the 2nd Nov., during a very heavy gale, the schooner Friends, of Lynn, parted from her anchor and was driven ashore, three miles south of Bridlington Harbour. The Brid- lington life-boat was quickly conveyed on her...
A Walrus Aeroplane
JANUARY 27TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. A Walrus aeroplane had been reported down on the sea but she got away safely and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £22.
John Nicholson
John Nicholson MBE, coxswain of New Brighton lifeboat from 1939 to 1954. He first joined Hoylake crew in 1911 and then the New Brighton crew in 1921, and was second coxswain of No. 2 boat from 1922 to 1932 and No. 1 boat from 1932 to 1938....
Category: Obituaries
Higgy and a Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 8.45 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was reported to be in difficulties three and a half miles east of Trusthorpe. Her engine had failed and there was a...