LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Baptism By Fire And Water
A BAptism By fiRe ANd WAteR At the northernmost tip of mainland Scotland, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean siphon into the North Sea and back again, twice a day, through a churning channel less than 7 miles wide. One new recruit will always...
Category: Articles
Obituary
WITH deep regret we have to announce the death, on active service, of Lieut.- Commander H, T. Gartside-Tipping, R.N., a member of the Committee of Management, who was killed in action while in command of the armoured yacht Sanda, on 25th...
Category: Obituaries
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...
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A Motor Launch and a Cabin Cruiser
ESCORT AND TOW FOR TWO BOATS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At nine o'clock on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor launch with two people on board which had put out to tow in a cabin...
Lerwick Lifeboat Named
On a blustery day Lerwick's lifeboat community officially welcomed their new Severn class lifeboat, Michael and Jane Vernon, into service. The lifeboat was named on 19 July in honour of Sir Michael Vernon, recently retired Chairman of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golden Arrow
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - RHYL, FLINT-SHIRE. During the afternoon it was learned from the coastguard that the local fishing smack Golden Arrow, which had gone out the previous evening with a crew of two, had not been seen since, and after...
Frances Mary
On the 23rd August, the brigantine Frances Mary, of Drogheda, stranded on Drogheda Bar during a, heavy E. gale, accompanied by a rough sea. The John Rutter Ohorley Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, but only 1 of the crew then came...
Bessie
During rough and squally weather in the early morning of the 13th August informa- tion was received that a flat was ashore in the Rock Channel. The crew of the steam Life-boat Queen were assembled and the boat proceeded to the position...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 9.38 on the morning of the 19th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had broken down east of Hopton and needed help. At 9.43 the life-boat Louise Stephens...
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