LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Achilles
At 8 P.M., on the 9th October, in a S.W. wind and moderate sea, the Lifeboat BeaucJiamp was launched at the request of Lloyd's Agent, and proceeded to the s.s. Achilles, of South Shields, which had stranded on Scroby...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He...
Category: Articles
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
Maria, of Aberystwith
Another excellent service was per- formed by the Abersoch Life-boat, on the night of the 23rd November last, when she was the means, while the wind was blowing a furious gale from the W.S.W., at times approaching a hurricane, of saving the...
A Rescue By Breeches Buoy
The Jacob George ashore at Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 4th' February, 1936. (See page 78).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Barge Asphodel
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 8.3 p.m. on igth May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the radio ship Olga Patricia had reported that a fishing smack was firing red flares about one mile north of her. The life-boat...
Trial, of Poole
On the night of the 3rd May, or rather at 1 A.M. on the 4th, a very gallant service was rendered by the crew of the Caistor life-boat, in rescuing, under circumstances of much danger, the crew of the schooner Trial, of Poole, 7 in number. On...
The S.S. Castilian
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HOLYHEAD FEBRUARY 12TH - 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. In the early hours of the 12th of February the S.S. Castilian, a 3,000-ton ship of the Ellerman Papayanni Company, entered Church Bay, and let go two anchors. She...
The S.S. Cape Clear
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.26 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Shoebury Sands, but there were no distress signals. The weather deteriorated during the morn- ing, and at 10.12...