LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Motor Vessel Axel
FEBRUARY 12TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 12.25 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that rockets had been seen two miles S.E. by E. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. It was snowing...
Fifty-Three Years' Service. Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston
Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston.
Two life-boatmen died last October, each of whom had the remarkable record of fifty-three years' service in the life-boat. One was...
Category: Obituaries
Falmouth's Severn the Will
0700 on "eclipse day', 11 August 1999, and Falmouth's Severn The Will waits to put to sea on stand-by. Already the dawn sunshine has given way to a heavy overcast sky.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gordon Stokes Chairman of Burton-On-Trent Branch Recently Received a Cheque for £410 from John Tester of Burton Diving Club the Money Had Been Collected Fro
Gordon Stokes, chairman of Burton-on-Trent branch, recently received a cheque for £410 from John Tester of Burton Diving Club.
The money had been collected from a crowd watching the diving club's annual raft race... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barges Butcher and Maria, and Violet
SOUTHEND (ESSEX).—During a heavy gale from the S.W. and a rough sea, on the 14th October, the Boys of England Life-boat rescued the crews, consisting of four men in all, from the distressed barges Butcher and Maria, of...
From the Life-Boat of 1938
Eianouth lifi-lxxit. Catherine Harriot Knlnn. and crew in 1938. Coxswain Tliomas Moore Horn, centre, ii'on the Ttianks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for his courage and determination in carrying oiti a very difficult and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dutch Motor Vessels Narwal and Hilda
Margate, Kent. At 2.48 early on the morning of the 27th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on the Kentish Knock sands about eighteen miles north-east of Margate. A south- south-easterly...
John Owston, Forty-One Years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-Boat
John Owston Forty-One Years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bombed -- But Safe In Port.
A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went...
Category: Articles
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