LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vixen
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 6th August the Bude coastguard reported that a small yacht, with four men on board, had left Bude for Boscastle some hours earlier, but had not arrived, and that a light had been seen off Carnbeak. A...
A Steamer (1)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—1 2th August, 1938. A steamer had been reported in need of help off Flatholm, but when the life-boat, with the honorary secretary, Mr. A. C. Jones, in command, arrived at Flatholm, she found that her services were...
Dreamer II
Selsey, Sussex.—At 4.45 on the night of the 27th of July, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that the yacht Dreamer II, of Bosham, needed help six and a half miles south of Selsey.
At 11.58 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was...
Seriality
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 17th of August, 1957, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the M.V. Seriality, of London, that her first officer had...
Two Longshore Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—12th October, 1939. Two longshore boats had been seen flying distress signals, but one was taken in tow by a herring drifter and the other, which was at anchor with her engine broken down, refused help as her skipper...
A Memory of the War
Mr. Claude M. Hart and the coxswain and ex-coxswain of the life-boat at The Lizard, with all that was found by the life-boats from Cadgwith and The Lizard of an aeroplane which crashed in the sea one night. - View image in PDF
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Carpo
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had heard on his private wireless set a message from a Dutch ship reporting a body seen in the sea nine miles east of...
A Motor Boat From H.M.S. Conway
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo...
Success
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCAHDINESHIRE. On the 2nd March the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden was launched at 11 A.M. and went to the assistance of the fishingboat Success which was in danger while making for the harbour in a S.E. breeze and a rough sea. The...
"City of Bradford II."
Sir William Priestley at the helm. On his left, Mrs. Moss Howson ; on his* right, the Lord Mayor of Bradford and the Lady Mayoress ; behind him, Mr. G. G. Stephenson. Lord Deramore is on the left of the picture, and Coxswain Cross on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs