LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alethea and the Southern Cross
Howth, Co. Dublin.—During a vacht race on the evening of the 26th of May, 1954, the 5-ton yacht Alethea was dismasted off Portmarnock Strand about two miles from Howth. The yacht Ann Gail wirelessed a distress call for her to Portpatrick...
The S.S. Dwight W. Morrow
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At about 4.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of June, 1948, it was reported that the s.s.
Dwight W. Morrow, of Jacksonville, U.S.A., had wirelessed that she had lost her propeller twelve miles west of...
The Sailing Boat Genevieve
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, the Formby coastguard reported that the port radar station had stated that a man was swimming seawards off Alexandra dock. At 1.40 the life-boat Norman B. Cotiett...
The Four-Masted Vessel Hougomont
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.—The gale of the 27th February, which is described as a " perfect hurricane," drove the Hougomont, a large four-masted vessel of 2,000 tons, ashore at Allonby, -when bound from San Francisco to Liverpool with a...
Double Ceremony at Rye Harbour
A beautiful day broke the pattern of continuous rain on 19 October for the 250 people attending the naming ceremony of Rye Harbour's new lifeboat and boathouse.
The new Atlantic 75 lifeboat (pictured right), Commander... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mine Sweeper Willett
At 4.45 A.M. on the 5th December informa- tion was received that the Sunk Light- vessel was firing signals for assistance to be sent to a vessel which was on the West Rocks. The crew of the Motor Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were promptly...
Maggie Smith, the Sunshine and Girl Mary
Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
The Admiralty Drifter No. 634
JANUARY 10TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel firing lights and signalling SOS at the entrance to Wells harbour. A strong north-by-west wind was blowing with a heavy swell...
The Life-Boat House and Slipway, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. (See Page 51.)
The Life-Boat House and Slipway St Mary's Isles of Scilly (See Page 51). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Benjamin Simons, of Sutton, Lincolnshire
By the death on 15th July, at the age of sixty-nine, of Mr. Benjamin Simons, of Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, the Institution has lost an honorary worker who has been associated with it for forty- three years. Mr. Simons was appointed...
Category: Obituaries