LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats
LYME REGIS, DORSET.— On the 14th No- vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm lade*, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Padstow Station
THE Life-boat Station at Padstow has celebrated its Centenary this year.
The first mention of it in the records of the Institution appears under the date, 24th January, 1827, when it was decided to make a grant of £10...
Category: Articles
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...
Category: Awards
Haweswater
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The Lifeboat John Robert was teunched at 12.30 P.M. on the 7ih April, the coxswain having observed from his house a barque apparently ashore on Crosafarnogue Point.
The vessel, which had grounded in...
The Scarweather Lightvessel
LIGHTVESSEL MASTER ILL At 12.45 p.m. on 6th February, 1965, the Superintendent of Trinity House informed the honorary secretary that the Master of Scarweather lightvessel was sick and asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to him. At 1...
Lady Isle
BROKEN FUEL PUMP At 3.57 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Lady Isle of Troon had broken her fuel pump seven miles west of Sanda Island. At 4.15 the lifeboat City of Glasgow II...
Hoocreek
ESCORT AFTER CARGO VESSEL IS REFLOATED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.8 early on the morning of the 22nd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo vessel had gone aground on Newcombe sands. The coastguard made...
A Motor Boat and a Dinghy
LOST THEIR DINGHY St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 6.15 p.m. on i8th October, I963,thecoastguard told the acting honorary secretary that two fires and a flashing light had been seen on Ramsey Island. At 6.19 the lifeboat Joseph Soar (Civil...
George William
Crab boat swamped THE KLAXON at the boathouse of Cromer's D class inflatable lifeboat was set off by Great Yarmouth Coastguard at 1213 on Friday May 1, 1981. "and the station honorary secretary and lifeboat crew, going immediately...