LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whitby Lass and Foxglove
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.16 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954,the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat appeared to be in difficulties one mile north-west of the harbour.
At 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary...
L-R: Mark Bland. Mark Harding and Greg Morgan
L-R: Mark Bland. Mark Harding and Greg Morgan Photo: Jason Roberts, Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver and Bronze Medallists
Coxswain Edwin Madron, of Penlee, and John Drew, the motor mechanic. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Agnes and Constance
At 1.10 A.M. on the 30th December a telephone message was received from the Coastguard at Shingle Street, stating that a vessel to the southward was burning big flares.
In response the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was...
Valerie and Miranda
Caister, Norfolk.—About noon on the 29th of July, 1957, a small boat was seen from the boathouse to be flying a distress flag. She was towing a larger vessel and appeared to be mak- ing little progress north of the north- west Scroby buoy....
(9)—Les Wall at the Oyster Sheds. He Retired from the Life-Boat Service In 1959 at the Age of 58. on the Life-Boat He Was Signalman. Joined In 1947.
(9)—Les Wall at the oyster sheds. He retired from the life-boat service in 1959 at the age of 58. On the life-boat he was signalman. Joined in 1947.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boats of France
ALTHOUGH the French were the first to experiment, as early as 1775, with an 'unsinkable and uncapsizable skiff' (canot insubmersible et inchavirable), they did not develop an organized life-boat service until much later.
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Mary and Jane
— In the evening of the 25th April, whilst the Coxswain and two motor - men were on board the motor Life - boat, James Stevens No. 14, running the engines, they saw a barge—the Mary Jane, of Rochester—apparently in difficulties, with the...
Sarah and Silver
On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...
Boy Pat and Nellie
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...