LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal Charter and Our Maggie
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th January the motor fishing boat Royal Charter, of Grimsby, and the local motor fishing coble Our Maggie left Scarborough for the fishing grounds. By 1.15 P.M. a strong gale was blowing...
Millicent
On the after- noon of the 19th November the coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat Millicent, with three men on board, had been out for twelve hours, and some anxiety was felt for her safety. A moderate north wind was blowing,...
A Yacht Club Visits the Walmer Station
LAST December Coxswain Frederick Upton of Walmer gave a talk to the Thames Motor Yacht Club, and at the end of the month a party of over twenty members, with their ladies, visited Deal. They entertained the Mayor and Mayoress and the...
Category: Branches
Louisa Twyzell
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the loth of October, 1955, eight fishing cobles put off to tend their crab pots, but the weather worsened and six of the boats returned. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Richard Ashley was...
Gladstone Star's Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. On the 27th of June, 1958, while the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was at sea carrying out machinery trials, the coxswain received a message from the pilot boat British Angler that a...
Probus Ioanes
FOUR IN DISTRESS Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 6.45 p.m. on zyth May, 1964, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a fishing boat appeared to be in need of help about i£ miles from the coastguard station and by 6.55 the life-boat...
Two Rowing Boats
SIX RESCUED FROM TWO BOATS Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 6th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four children were in difficulties in a rowing boat off Proud Giltar. Twelve minutes...
A Dinghy (4)
LIFE-BOAT BREAKS ADRIFT AT NIGHT Lytham-StAnne's, Lancashire. During the night of the 29th September, 1962, the Workington life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX, which was at moorings off Lytham after survey broke adrift and was driven...
Presentations and Celebrations Go Together When Coxswain Edgar Moore (I) of Newhaven Retired After 16 Years Service His Station Presented Him With a Model Of
Presentations and celebrations go together. . . . When Coxswain Edgar Moore (I.) of Newhaven retired after 16 years service, his station presented him with a model of Kathleen Mary made by Mr Osbourne and Mr Fox of Christchurch. Mrs P.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services by Shore-Boats (3)
BURRA ISLE, SHETLANDS. While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the 18th March, 1939, when the boat was...
Category: Services