LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Famous Coxswains, Serving and Retired:
Famous coxswains, serving and retired: Arthur Curnow, Frank Smith, Edward Hannaford and Brian Cater - with retired lifeboats Baltic Air and Mabel Holland. - View image in PDF
Photo: Jeremy Greenaway. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
Category: Services
Gerassimos Vergottis and Van Ostade
JULY 1ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. During thick fog the Greek steamer Gerassimos Vergottis and the Dutch steamer Van Ostade had collided, and the Greek steamer had been badly damaged.
The life-boats could not...
Minnie and Star of Hope
MARCH 14TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.46 A.M. four Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing ground. As the weather was threatening, two of the boats returned, but the other two began fishing.
As...
Thomas, Yorkshire Lass and Mischief
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 7th February, at about 6 P.M., the ketch Thomas, of Lynn, while endeavouring to make Hartlepool Harbour, went ashore near the Beacon Rocks. A gale from the S.S.E. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy sea....
Susan and Isabella, of Dundee
At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, Tor the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
founded in 1824.—Supported Try Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Fishguard Lass and Miss Beck
PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. On the 18th January fearful weather was experienced here, and the Life-boat George Moore was twice launched to the assistance of the crews of distressed vessels.
The wind was blowing a very heavy...
The Barges Astrild and Grecian
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 23rd November, 1938, the motor life-boat rescued the crews, four in number, of the two barges Astrild and Grecian.— Rewards: Bronze medal, letters of thanks, and monetary awards amounting to £49 14s....
Trawlers Ben Bheula and Cyelse
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...