LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coila
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned a wireless message from a steamer that the motor yacht Coila, of Plymouth, on passage to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was flying distress...
The Last Survivor
JOHN HUBBARD, of Caister, who died on the 24th February, was the last sur- vivor of the crew of the Caister pulling and sailing life-boat which was driven back on the breakers on Caister beach, when on her way to a ship in distress, in a...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Persic
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.30 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the wireless operator on board the s.s. Persic of Southampton had had a heart attack and needed a doctor. After...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 1. Miss Alice Marshall, Honorary Secretary of the Oxford Branch
Honorary Workers of the Institution No 1 Miss Alice Marshall Honorary Secretary of the Oxford Branch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore In the Republic of Ireland
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore in the Republic of Ireland first joined the lifeboat crew in 1955. He became second coxswain in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1972, being awarded a long service badge in 1982. John is a boat builder by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Alexander Nelson of Donaghadee. He has been a member of the Donaghadee life-boat crew since 1912. He was appointed bowman in 1929, second coxswain in 1949, and coxswain in 1954. During the period of a...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Foch Rose
Walmer, Kent.—At 6.5 on the morn- ing of the 24th of February, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Foch Rose, of Liverpool, which had a crew of twelve, had run aground on Oldstairs Shoal. At 6.30 the life- boat Charles Dibdin,...
Annie Walker
During a S.W. moderate gale and moderate sea on the afternoon of the 7th March, the steam-trawler Annie Walker, of Dundee, stranded on the Annat Bank, and about 6 P.M. a tug went to her, but her assist- ance was declined. About 7.20 how-...
The Cross Sands Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.29 a.m. on 14th April, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that there was a sick man on board the Cross Sands lightvessel. The lifeboat Khami with a doctor on board slipped her moorings at 2 o'...
The S.S. Glenravel
The new Motor Life-boat Lady Rallies, which had been stationed at Fraserburgh as recently as July, was called upon to per- form her first service on the 8th August.
Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning an...