LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Scillonian and the Launch Kittern
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—On the 10th of September, 1951, the S.S.
Scillonian was bound from Penzancefor St. Mary's with eighty-three people.
The sea was smooth, but there was a very...
Emulate
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 20th of October, 1948, the Eyemouth harbour-master reported that the local motor fishing boat Emulate was overdue. A fishing boat's lights could be seen to the north of St. Abbs Head...
The Converted Schooner Hispaniola
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1949, a telephone message was received that a converted schooner, the Hispaniola, which was being used by a film com- pany, was dragging her anchor close inshore in the...
Rona
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.14 on the morning of the 20th of August, 1957, the Wykc Reg-is coastguard telephoned a report that the yacht Rona had developed a bad leak one mile west of St. Alban's Head. The life-boat Wil- liam and Clara...
A Motor Boat (3)
Troon, Ayrshire.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 3957, the Saltcoats police telephoned that a motor boat belonging to the Irvine sea cadets had broken down and drifted on to rocks near Saitcoats bathing pool....
Kingfisher
Dover, Kent. At 9.36 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of February, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boat was burning flares off Shakespeare cliff to the west of Dover. At 9.55 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a moderate south...
Second Tragedy Within a Year
Coxswain Edward Gifford Lewis, who was appointed only last January to be coxswain of the Barry Dock life-boat, lost his life when he was swept overboard from a sand barge whilst crossing Appledore Bar on 28th August,...
Category: Obituaries
Annual Awards 1976
The Maud Smith Bequest for the bravest lifesaving act by a lifeboatman in 1976 has been made to Crew Member Glyn Roberts of Porthdinllaen for the rescue, last August, of two boys who were trapped on the cliffs. Glyn Roberts climbed almost...
Category: Awards
Zipporah
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.—At about 4 A.M.
on the 30th August, while the wind was blowing strongly from the N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the schooner Zipporah, of Scarborough, which had been on the beach on the previous day...
The Lizard - West Division
The Lizard is the Southernmost point of the British mainland, a bold promontory that juts out to form a gatepost to the English Channel.
The station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in Kilcobben Bay - the boathouse with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs