LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (8)
LIFE-BOATMAN CARRIES TWO BOYS ASHORE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.25 on the night of the 4th June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were marooned on a marker buoy off Hall Road, Crosby. At 10.40 the...
Edwardino, of Genoa
The brig Ed- wardino, of Genoa, was stranded during a terrific gale from the S. on the Northern Strand of Ballycotton Bay, on the 30th December. The life-boat St. Clair went off twice, and on the second occasion rescued the vessel's crew...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the west coast of Ireland. He has been cox- swain since October, 1928, and is one of the seven coxswains who won the gold medal for conspicuous gallantry during the war of...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Cogent
A very thick fog having lifted somewhat about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th May, a steamer was sighted aground about half way to the outer part of the rocks off the pier. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis, im- mediately...
Flower of Portsoy
Shortly after 7 P.M. on the 31st August a telephone message was received, stating that the schooner Flower of Portsoy, of Plymouth, was aground on the Platter Rocks, in Holyhead Bay.
The Cemlyn Life-boat, Anne Collin, was...
Four Years of War.
In four years of war our life-boats have rescued 5288 lives. They have rescued more lives in these four years of war than in the last fifteen years of peace. They have rescued 25 lives every week.
Life-boatmen have been...
Category: Articles
Capt. F. Rolli Pointing Out to a B.B.C. Commentator the Rock Which His Ship, the S.S. Isabo, Struck on 27th October, 1927, at the Isles of Scilly
Capt. F. Rolli pointing out to a B.B.C. commentator the rock which his ship, the s.s. Isabo, struck on 27th October, 1927, at the Isles of Scilly. Miraculously, however, 32 of the crew of 38 were picked up despite high seas and fog.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gullfoss, of Reykjavik
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 2.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Gullfoss of Reykjavik which would be off Scrabster at 4 o'clock. The life-boat Pentland...
Hortensia, of Hanover
On the night of the 27th March the schooner Hor- tensia, of Hanover, drove ashore on the North Steel Rocks, near Boulmer. The Boulmer life-boat was soon launched through a high surf, and proceeded to the rescue of.
her...
Catherine Shaun, of Fleetwood
Caister, Norfolk - At 8.45 p.m. on 22nd July, 1968, a life-boat helperinformed the motor mechanic that a radio message from the trawler Catherine Shaun of Fleetwood had been intercepted, reporting that she had an injured man on board who...