LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
The Coast-Guard Service: Its Origin and Life-Saving Work
A GOVERNMENT Service for the pre- vention of smuggling, from which the present Coast-guard Service has evolved, was already in existence in this country in the early part of the eighteenth century. In those days a consider- able force was...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Vessels Betty, Liberty and Dainty Lady
EASTERLY GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.50 a.m.
on ist March, 1965, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessels Betty, Liberty and Dainty Lady were at sea and that since they had...
Kentish Hoy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.- At 10.25 P.M., on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the Felixstowe eoastguard, through the Walton-on- Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork...
The S.S. Giannoulis Gounaris and the S.S. Lunineach
MAY 2ND. - LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At 7.15 A.M. the Croyde coastguard reported a steamer ashore to the east of Lynmouth. A light easterly wind was blowing, with a smooth sea, and the weather was hazy. The pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard...
Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1975
Abersoch, Gwynedd October 10 and November 5.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 19 and 21.
Bangor, Co. Down October 5.
Barmouth, Gwynedd September 21.
Barrow, Cumbria...
Category: Services
Molly and Peter Tabor
JULY 1991 Molly and Peter Tabor, donors of the D class lifeboat stationed at Port Isaac..
Category: Obituaries
Group Captain Wedge Is Pictured Preparing to Name the Lifeboat. Looking On, from Left to Right Are: Barry Cartwright, William Wilson, Philip Gordon and Mark Poland.
Group Captain Wedge is pictured preparing to name the lifeboat. Looking on, from left to right are: Barry Cartwright, William Wilson, Philip Gordon and Mark Poland.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue Cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (Left) and R S Platou of Norway Both Are Designed to Accompany Their Fishing Fleets to Sea
Rescue cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (left) and R. S. - View image in PDF
Platou of Norway. Both are designed to accompany their fishing fleets to sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Penrhyn and the Examination Vessel Galatea
NOVEMBER 15TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 12.17 P.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported to the life-boat authorities that a steamer had sunk near the Gamma Buoy.. A S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The No. 1 motor life-boat...