LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Augustine Courtauld
Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the famous explorer, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1951, died on the 3rd of March, 1959, at the age of 54. He served on the finance, boat and construction and operations...
Category: Obituaries
£45,000 from An Aeroplane
The Newquay life-boat went out in a fog to a crashed, aeroplane. She found no one alive,'but. she brought ashore twelve bodies, mail bags and £45,000 in 100-dollar bills..
Category: Articles
Martaban
POOLE.—On the 27th March, at about 2 A.M., the Poole Life-boat proceeded out in reply to signals of distress shown by the ship Martaban, of Greenock, which had stranded on the Hook Sand, and found that 6 of her crew had left her in one of...
Equity
ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—The schooner Equity, of Boston, bound from Newcastle to London, with firebricks and soda, signalled for assistance at 1 P.M. on the 14th October, during a heavy gale and rough sea, and a beach yawl thereupon went to her...
Padstow
The tug " Helen Peele," with the two Padstow Life-boats lying beside her.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Vessels
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the coastguard reported that five fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorat- ing weather, and at 9.40 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched, with the...
A Boat
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—At8.10 on the morning of the 10th of Septemher, 1953, a life-boatman reported that a local boat was adrift with no one on board north of Newbiggin Point. At 8.30 the life-boat Richard Ashley was launched in a...
Vega
EMPTY YACHT ADRIFT Wicklow.—At 10.80 in the morning of the 10th of November, 1947, the owner of the sailing yacht Vega, of Wicklow, reported that his yacht was adrift 5 miles to the east and, as no other boat was available, asked for the...
Miranda
Barrow, Lancashire. At 1.15 on the morning of the llth June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with two men aboard was overdue and that anxiety was felt for their safety. At two o'clock, when the...
Upernavik, of Esbjerg
On 5th December, 1970, m.f.v. Upernavik of Esbjerg with five people on board went ashore at Bressay. The Lerwick, Shetland, life-boat Southern Africa on temporary duty at the station slipped her moorings at 1.2. There was a westerly gale...