LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1960 has been won by Coxswain Patrick Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, for the rescue of the only man on board a disabled barge on the 4th of...
Category: Awards
Lymington: Wing Cdr Alan Roxburgh (R) Station Honorary Secretary and Herbert Rand (I) Branch Vice-Chairman With Clare Francis Who Opened the Station's New Il
Lymington: Wing Cdr Alan Roxburgh (r.), station honorary secretary, and Herbert Rand (I.), branch vice-chairman, with Clare Francis who opened the station's new ILB boathouse on June 2, unveiling a plaque commemorating a gift from Saab... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Old Age Pensioner Remembers.
An old age pensioner has sent five shillings to the Institution. He wrote that he had been rescued by the Gorleston life-boat in 1884.
Category: Articles
Sarah Ann
SWANSEA.—On the 8th January, at about 5.30 A.M. the Life-boat Wolverhampton saved the crew of 10 men from the barque Sarah Ann, of Sunderland, which had sunk in Swansea Bay during a gale from E.S.E. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Monte...
Esther Ann
BLACKPOOL.—The schooner Esther Ann, of Belfast, timber laden, from Wexford for Preston, struck on the Crusader Bank during a strong breeze from the N.W. and a rough sea on the 28th June. The Samuel Fletcher Life-boat put off to her...
Ann Warren
An excellent ser- vice was performed by the No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1 on the 18-19th January, resulting in four lives being saved. About 7.30 P.M., whilst a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, signals of distress were seen from a...
Mary Ann
At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat John BurcJi was...
Margaret Ann
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 2.30 p.m.
on 23rd June, 1965, the honorary secretary heard from the harbour office that three cobles were at sea, and overdue. He telephoned the coastguard for information as to their position. At...
Sarah Ann
Holy Island, Northumberland. At five o'clock on the morning of the llth of May, 1959, the skiff Sarah Ann left harbour to fish for crabs and lobsters.
By 10.30 all the local fishing boats with the exception of...
Margaret Ann
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.57 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that flares had been seen be- tween the North and South Smethwick buoys three to five miles east-south-east of...