LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
ON the closing of the Burnham Life-boat Station the following awards were made :— To FREDERICK J. KING, who served for 5 1/2 years as Coxswain, 4 1/2 years as Bowman, and previously 30 years as a member of the Crew, a Coxswain's...
Category: Awards
From the Director
I was very pleased to include a message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT last year, and I am delighted to do so again.
I mentioned last year various developments in lifeboat design which were being undertaken, and it is...
Category: Articles
The Liberty Ship Fort St. Paul, and The Admiralty Vessel Ben My Chree
JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick fog, with a light westerly breeze and a...
St. Ninian
Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 12.15 p.m. on 4th September, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain the lobster boat St. Ninian was overdue and a search by the life-boat was requested. The lifeboat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at...
HSL
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Category: Advertisement
Tough Choices
The lifeguards had been watching the kayakers for a while. It was raining on Pembrokeshire’s Newport Sands, and the only beach goers to keep an eye on were ‘hardcore’ dog walkers. Two men in single kayaks and two children, young girls in a...
Category: Articles
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo (3)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Barnhill
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London.Two of the...
An Aeroplane (96)
JUNE 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a barge.
In addition to the two life-boats the motor boarding boat from...
The S.S. Empire Gatehouse, Formerly Jutland
DECEMBER 28TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 11.13 in the morning, the coastguard reported that North Foreland Radio had received an SOS call from the S.S.
Empire Gatehouse, formerly the German steamer Jutland....