LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight—At 6.16 P.M. on the llth May, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard at Cliff End that a motor launch off Barton-on-Sea had broken down, and that its occupants were waving clothing to attract attention. As...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Salcombe, andTorbay, Devon.—5th November, 1937. A small fishing boat from Bee Sands had not returned when expected, and the Salcombe motor life-boat searched for her. Later, the Torbay motor life-boat carried on the search, and next day a...
A Small Fishing Boat
The motor life- boat J.J.K.S.W. was launched at 4.40 P.M. on the 15th May, as the Kirkwall coastguard had telephoned that a small fishing boat, with only one man on board, had blown adrift from Scapa Pier. A whole N.E. gale was blowing,...
A Dinghy (3)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.42 on the evening of the 23rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had overturned off Ballyreagh and that three people were in the water. There was a gentle north-...
A Life-Boat Sculptor
THE following announcement appeared in the Morning Post on 9th May :— " Mr. Frederick Thomas Callcott, the sculptor, died recently in a nursing home at Hastings. Born at Newcastle Street, Strand, in 1854, he was educated at St. Clement...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Launch
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—On the night of the 14th of April, 1948, the Civic Guard telephoned that a boat was in distress in the bay, and at 11 o'clock the motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosvueller was...
A Sailing Yacht
Margate, Kent.—At 5.26 on the after- noon of the 15th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the West- gate Safety Boatman had reported a small sailing yacht capsized about half a mile off shore at Birchington. A man was swimming in...
A Small Rowing Boat
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—Late on the evening of the 18th July information was received that a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, appeared to be unmanageable and was drifting out to sea with the strong ebb tide. A moderate...
Second Tragedy Within a Year
Coxswain Edward Gifford Lewis, who was appointed only last January to be coxswain of the Barry Dock life-boat, lost his life when he was swept overboard from a sand barge whilst crossing Appledore Bar on 28th August,...
Category: Obituaries
The Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher With Second Coxswain Robert Jones Took the Wheel of Holyhead's New 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Hyman Winstone During a Visit on July 18 Mrs Thatcher Als
The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, with Second Coxswain Robert Jones, took the wheel of Holyhead's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Hyman Winstone during a visit on July 18. Mrs Thatcher also met crew members and their wives and branch and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs