LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne speaks to members of Southend-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 crew (from left to right, John Foster, David Goodbourn and Paul Henshaw), watched by station honorary secretary Colin Sedgewick (extreme right).... - View image in PDF

On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor,...

The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.

At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...

ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...

THE following report, sent in by the honorary secretary of an inshore rescue boat station, is just another example of failing to face up to the fact that the sea is unpredictable.

Apparently two men went out in a homemade...

IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 19th July the Orfordness coastguard reported that a yacht about eight miles S.W. of Orfordness was flying what appeared to be a signal of distress. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...

Also II. to some men for rescuing 2 men from a boat which was capsized by a heavy sea, on the 8th May last, off Gweedore Bar, on the coast of Donegal.

Also Silver Medal of the Institution and U to Gunner CHARLES LEESE, and...