LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. J. M. Mawso, J.P., of Barrow
By the death of Mr. J. M. Mawson, J.P., of Barrow-in-Furness, on 20th November, at the age of seventy-five, the Institution has lost one of the oldest of its honorary secretaries of life-boat stations. He was appointed honorary secretary in...
Category: Obituaries
Waiting for the Call
The operator at the wireless telegraphy set on the Rosslare Harbour motor life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of November, 1948, a telephone message was received from Vatersay Island asking for help to be sent for a maternity case. A south-east gale was blowing with a rough...
A Fishing Boat
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.38 on the after- noon of the 26th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that eight fishing cobles were still at sea in bad weather. At 1.50 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched in a flooding...
Sea Flower
At 4.20 p.m. on loth August, 1966, it was reported that the coble Sea Flower was at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather.
At 4.57 the life-boat Robert and DorothyHardcastle was launched in a south westerly gale and a rough...
Polish Rescue Tug Huragan
Polish rescue tug Huragan at the T983 International Lifeboat Conference in Sweden.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishery Protection Vessel Vaila
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the fishery protection vessel Vaila was ashore north of Craigmore, Isle of Lewis, and was making water. Shortly afterwards a message was...
Pena Rocias
SUNDERLAND, SOUTH OUTLET, DURHAM.
—A large Spanish steamer, the Pena Rocias, of Santander, went ashore at Sunderland on the night of the 4th February. She left the Tees during the afternoon in ballast bound for the Wear. At...
Bonnie Lass and Good Design
IN THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At noon on the 16th of July, 1947, with a very thick fog, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that he could hear men shouting, a klaxon sounding and a bell ringing, about a...
The Sailing Barge Esterel
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.— At 1.5 in the morning of the 6th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen four miles to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.30....