LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Going, going, gone
This interesting picture sent in by Mr A. S.C.
Walker, of Albert Walker & Son, of Redcar, Yorkshire, shows the late Mr Stanley Walker selling the old Redcar lifeboat Fifi and Charles by public auction on Redcar beach on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
March of Liverpool and Richard,of Bangor
On the 19th of February, the schooners March, of Liverpool, and Richard, of Ban- gor, were stranded in Moelfre Bay, during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. Both vessels at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly responded to...
Catherine,of Amlwch
On the 25th. Jan. this Life-boat pro- ceeded to the assistance of the schooner Catherine, of Amlwch, which was wrecked on the Breakwater in a southerly gale, and brought on shore from her 3 persons.
An Acknowledgment
THE photograph of the Maryport motor life-boat, Priscilla Macbean, which appeared in the article " On Service in a Motor Life-boat," in the last issue of Tlie Life-boat, was taken by Messrs.
Baxter & Son, of...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (2)
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, fourteen local fishing cobles put out from Filey. The wind got up suddenly, and at 7.15 a whole S. gale was blowing, with arough sea and torrential rain....
Captain Andrew
In very heavy weather on the night of the 24th-25th of November, 1951, the Walmer life-boat gave help to a steamer on the Goodwin Sands. A full account of this service appears on page 288..
In An Open Life-Boat
Transmitter and receiver built into the after end-box.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Memorial at Clacton-On-Sea
ON the 14th of November, 1948, a memorial plaque to Second-Coxswain Frank Castle, of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, was unveiled in the boat- house.
The plaque is inscribed with these words: " In memory of Frank Castle,...
Category: Articles
A Hunter Aircraft (5)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
Marijon
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 10.10 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959, the coxswain received a message from Abersoch that a 14-feet motor boat with three men on board was overdue. The boat had last been seen at six o'clock off...