LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Mail Steamer Banshee
The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched at 12.30 AM. on the 14th of January, 1887, to the assistance of the mail-steamer Banshee, of and from Dublin for Holyhead, which had stranded in Towyn Bay during a dense fog. The steamer, which had a...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Abersoch, Caernarvonshire. — On the 29th June Mr. William Owen saw a small sailing boat capsize and ran and told two boatmen, who put out in a motor boat. They found two men and a woman clinging to the keel in an exhausted condition,...
Category: Services
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
DURING the summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held at the Lizard, Appledore, Peterhead, Brixham, Eastbourne and Bembridge. Of these, the Lizard boat went to her station in 1920, the Peter- head and Eastbourne...
Category: Inaugurations
An Aeroplane (198)
DECEMBER 16TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea 12 miles N.E. of Flamborough Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £21 19s. 3d..
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry West of Sheringham. He was appointed assistant motor mech- anic in 1940, became second coxswain in 1947 and coxswain in 1951. Cox- swain West was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Articles
Nina and An Mordros, and Optimist
Busy afternoon for Amble Amble's Waveney class Margaret Graham had a busy afternoon on 14 August, attending three calls in three hours.
She was first launched at 1207 to the fishing boat Nina with ten anglers aboard.<...
Journey Up the Thames of the Teesmouth Motor Life-Boat
ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...
Category: Articles
An Aircraft
Selsey, Sussex.—24th January, 1939.
An aircraft had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.— Rewards, £8 18s..
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.11 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Why Worry, with a crew of two, appeared to have broken down off Trimingham, four miles south-east of Cromer. At...
The Life-Boat Service In 1952
FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...
Category: Articles