LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1967 Three Bronze Medals for Welsh crew Three members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans,...
Category: Articles
Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 10 A.M.
on the 18th April, 1938, the motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea to haul their crab pots. Theweather was showery, and the sea strong. On the flood tide the sea grew worse...
Leeds and Mary Watkins
DUNWICH.—The Ann Ferguson Lifeboat put off at 11.55 A.M. on the 24th July, during a fresh S.W. wind and a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Leeds, of and from Goole for London, laden with a cargo of fire-bricks and...
Offshore Lifeboat Services December 1977 January and February 1978
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire December 11.
Aith, Shetland December 9.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 1.
Amble, Northumberland December 12.
Appledore, North Devon December 11 and...
Category: Services
Small Ads
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Category: Advertisement
Contessa and Lionheart
Two yachts aground BRADWELL COASTGUARD MOBILE was in the vicinity of Stansgate on the afternoon of Friday, May 20, keeping watch over a number of yachts off Osea Island, when, at 1723, a yacht was seen to be heading for the sand spit at the...
Dijon and Peebles
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1935
1st May to 31st July, 1935.
Greater London.
Prince of Wales Day for the life-boats was held in Greater London, on 21st May, in Acton and Chiswick, Ashford, Barnes, Battersea, Beckenham, Bermondsey,...
Category: Branches
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of.the Committee of Management.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 10 P.M. on the 15th May, Miss Patience Trout, of Hallsands, saw, by telescope, signals of distress...
Category: Services
William and Martha
PROVIDED ESCORT At 7.35 a.m. on I2th March, 1966, the coxswain saw a local coble, William and Martha, at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth launched at 7.45 in a strong to gale force wind from the...