LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stromness
OCT. 4TH. - ABERDEEN. In the evening the Bridge of Don coastguard reported that the steam trawler Stromness, of Aberdeen, had stranded on the beach, abreast of Broad Hill. The pulling surf life-boat Robert and Ellen Robson was taken by...
Brothers
During a moderate northerly gale with a choppy sea on the 30th July the ketch Brothers, of Cardigan, commenced to drag her anchors. As the vessel was on a lee shore signals of distress were made, and in response the crew of the Life-boat...
Fairweather Father (1)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A...
Ray Rushton
Ray Rushton has been raising money for D class inflatable lifeboats for some years in sponsorship of his veteran car in the London to Brighton Run. He was also responsible for an RNLI benefit night at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium which,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: FEBRUARY 1993 Mrs Betty Foster, chairman of Driffield ladies' guild since 1983. She served as secretary for 16 years from 1967 and was awarded a Gold badge in 1991.
MARCH...
Category: Obituaries
A Dinghy (2)
PROTOTYPE LIFE-BOAT'S FIRST SERVICE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At a quarter to midnight on Tuesday the 17th September, 1963, the Needles coastguard reported to the coxswain that two boys had been missing on Tennyson Down since 5.45 that...
Silver Line
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—-At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Silver Line was still at sea in worsening weather.
At 3.10 the life-boat...
Hyacinth
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.46 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Ushant radio station broad- cast that the fishing boat Gordias had found the sailing yacht Hyacinth, of Washington, U.S.A., about twelve miles west-by-north...
Usko
1 It was reported at about 6.30 A,M. on the 27th November that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwin Sands.
A fresh W.N.W. breeze was blowing at the time. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 at once put off, and found the...
James Wickham
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel James Wickham, which was taking a party to the U.S.S. Rhodes, had broken down and was flying...