LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tribute to H.R.H. Princess Marina
THE NEWS of the passing of Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, President of the Institution for over 25 years, was received with very real sorrow by all connected with the work of life-saving at sea.
Capt. the Hon. V. M....
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Lives Lost, 1853
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.
Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...
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Vineta
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...
Sea Breeze
NUMBED WITH COLD Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — At 4.5 in the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Sea Breeze, of Aber- ayron, was making distress signals about a quarter of a mile...
Coxswain Alan Thomas
Coxswain Alan Thomas of Tenby. Alan Thomas joined the Tenby lifeboat crew in 1966, was assistant motor mechanic from 1972 to 1974 and served as second coxswain from 1974 to 1982 when he became coxswain. He was awarded the thanks of the... - View image in PDF
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Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain Harold Parkinson, of Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. He became coxswain in April, 1959, and was awarded the Institution's bronze medal in 1962 for the rescue of the four members of a yacht's crew. He... - View image in PDF
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Scarborough Lifeboat the 37' Oakley J G Graves of Sheffield Launched at 1945 on September 21 1976 With a Pump and Three Firemen on Board to Help Trawler Anmara
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37' Oakley J. G. Graves of Sheffield, launched at 1945 on September 21, 1976, with a pump and three firemen on board, to help trawler Anmara (with crew of three) under tow of trawler Carolanne and in danger of... - View image in PDF
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Indus and the Dock Board Hopper Mersey No. 24
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the port radar station that the M.V. Indus had collided with the Dock Board hopper...
The Hopper No. 19
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat...
Sjofna, of Oslo (1)
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...