LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (2)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—12th June.
A small boat with three young men on board had been reported overdue, but eventually made land at Carrickfergus.
—Rewards, £8 18s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (2)
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— 30th September, 1938. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she had, in fact, only been flying low.
Capt. D. H. Gibsone, D.S.O., R.I.N., honorary secretary of the branch,...
Two Longshore Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—12th October, 1939. Two longshore boats had been seen flying distress signals, but one was taken in tow by a herring drifter and the other, which was at anchor with her engine broken down, refused help as her skipper...
Naming Ceremonies
DURING the summer new life-boats were named at eight stations, Swanage, New Quay (Cardigan), Eastbourne, Ramsey, Barmouth, Porthdinllaen, Portrush and Newcastle (Co. Down).
Accounts of the ceremonies will be pub- lished...
Category: Articles
Decks Awash In a Near Gale Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane Tows Home the 90' Beam Fishing Trawler Elizabeth Ann Webster Which Ha
Decks awash in a near gale, Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat, James and Catherine Macfarlane, tows home the 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster, which had broken down off Tintagel Head. Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First of the Three Barnett- Stromness Model Lifeboats
The first of the three Barnett- Stromness model lifeboats to be 'commissioned', seen as though launching down a slipway with its proud 'coxswain', just three days short of his eighth birthday. He has called the model Falmouth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Longshore Boats
OCT. 12TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
Two longshore boats had been seen flying distress signals, but one was taken in tow by a herring drifter and the other, which was at anchor with her engine broken down, refused help as her...
A Motor Boat (6)
OCT. 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. A motor boat had broken down, and another boat had gone to her help. As neither had returned the motor life-boat was launched, but shortly afterwards it was learned that both boats had reached Ramsgate. - Rewards,...
Newcastle
NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN On the 19th January, 1941, the Newcastle life-boat gave help to the motor vessel Hoperidge, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
COXSWAIN PATRICK MURPHY was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
None (1)
JANUARY 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A red flare had been reported and men and women launchers worked hard and well in the darkness to get the life-boat down to the water through ten inches of snow, but she found nothing. -...