LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Walkers Three Lifeboats
Heavy surf pounds Newhaven's 'Y' boat as she makes the first trip out to the Arun. - View image in PDF
(Photo Terry Connolly, Seaiord Gazette). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Ann Morrow,
DECEMBER 1997 Mrs Ann Morrow, Coventry ladies lifeboat guild treasurer from 1985 until 1992. She joined the guild in 1981 and continued to serve the committee until shortly before her death,.
Category: Obituaries
Sir Philip Hay KC VO TD,
Sir Philip Hay KC VO TD, an honorary life governor of the RNLI. Sir Philip Hay was private secretary to HRH Pricess Marina, Duchess of Kent when she was president of the Institution..
Category: Obituaries
A Steamer (18)
DECEMBER 7TH. - THE HUMBER , YORKSHIRE. A steamer had run aground, but she had a pilot on board and did not need the life-boat. - Permanent paid crew ; rewards, 6s.
Irvine
IRVINE, N.B.—On the 20th December, at about 2 P.M., the tug Irvine, of Irvine, was proceeding to Ayr to tow a vessel to Irvine Harbour, during a strong S.W. gale and a heavy sea. She grounded on the centre of the bar, and showed signals of...
Mary Watkinson
On the 12th February, signals of distress were shown by the three-masted schooner Mary Watkinson, of Barrow, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden therefore went to her assistance. She was drifting towards the shore at Penrhos Point, dragging her...
Noordster
On the 20th March the same boat pro- ceeded out to the Noordster, a Norwegian barque, at about midnight: it blowing hard at the time, with squalls of snow and hail. A prior attempt to board the Noordster in White's Life-boat had failed,...
Sunbeam
On the 14th March, when a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was | running, the fishing-coble Sunbeam was j delayed some hours behind the others, in consequence of the night being very dark with snow falling heavily and the...
May
The Crew of the Motor Life-boat George Shee were assem- bled at 11 P.M. on 28th February as the Coastguard had reported to the Cox- swain that a vessel—which was found later to be the motor trawler May, of Ostend, bound for the fishing...
Mavis
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing coble Mavis, with a crew of two, was overdue, and at three o'clock the life-boat Winston Churchill, Civil...