LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler
Portaskaig, Isle of Islay.—9th March, 1938. A trawler had been wrecked at Smuall Point, but eight of her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by men with lines; the other three had been washed away and lost.—Rewards, £8...
Three Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.10 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1952, a message was received from Leysdown that three women and a man in a small boat were in difficulties about two miles off shore, and at 1.30 the life-boat Greater...
Portrait on the Cover
The portrait on the cover is of Second-coxswain William J. Bailey, of Walmer, Kent. He joined the crew in 1917 at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed bowman in 1942, and second-coxswain in 1945..
Category: Articles
They Have Now Been Warned
Two men have been fined £2 each at Tobermory for firing a rocket "for fun" over the Island of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, on the night of the 3rd of January. The rocket was taken for a distress signal and the Barra Island...
Category: Services
Obituary
SINCE the last issue of The Life-boat secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch, Mr. Keppel H. Foote, late district inspector of life-boats, Captain Thomas Pengilly, late coxswain at Clovelly, and ex-Coxswain William Miller, of Eyemouth....
Category: Obituaries
A Trimaran
HOW A TRIMARAN WAS SAVED At 3.14 on the afternoon of the 21st July, 1962; the Lowestoft, Suffolk, lifeboat was launched to the help of a trimaran. An eye-witness account of this service appears on page 349..
Life-Boat for Italy Under Construction
The first two life-boats for the Italian life-boat service, which is about to be formed, will both be of the 52-foot Barnett type. They are being built by Groves and Guttridge at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Guillaume Anne Marie
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 3rd of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the French trawler Guillaume Anne Marie with a crew of twelve had engine trouble six miles south-east of Skelligs...
The Plymouth Life-Boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse Leaving Millbay Docks to go to the Assistance of the Crabber, Sunlit Waters, Broken Down off Penlee on 16th February, 1967
The Plymouth life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse leaving Millbay Docks to go to the assistance of the crabber, Sunlit Waters, broken down off Penlee on 16th February, 1967. A force seven wind was blowing at the time.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 18th of June, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Marie of Waterford needed help half a mile west-north-west of the small Tearaght Rock. At 2.30 the...