LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (1)
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—10th January.
A trawler had been wrecked off Ardbeg and had foundered in fifteen minutes. Four of her crew were lost, but nine scrambled on to rocks, from which eight were rescued by a steamer...
A Motor Boat (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boat bound from Wick to Longhope was long overdue, but a search was without result. Later it was learned that the boat had taken shelter in a cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10...
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
From ist April to 30th June, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 76 times. On nine occasions—described in chronological order below—they were able to rescue people in difficulties.
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14...
Category: Services
Premuda
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
Letters
Thanks, Whitby (see photograph, page 187) I am one of the pupils of Brinsworth Whitehill Junior School and I am writing to say how grateful we are to the RNLI at Whitby for rescuing us from the cliffs on Tuesday, March 19. It was the second...
Category: Correspondence
A Sailing Dinghy
Coverack, Cornwall - At 9.52 p.m.
on 9th April, 1969, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy on passage from Falmouth to Coverack was overdue.
At 10 o'clock the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was...
Charles Bowry
Charles Bowry, staff coxswain from 1984 to 1986. He joined Sheerness lifeboat crew in 1969 as station mechanic and in 1970 was appointed Coxswain/Mechanic. In 1981 he was appointed Coxswain/Mechanic of Portpatrick lifeboat. 'Charlie'...
Category: Obituaries
Above Homeward Bound
Above. Homeward bound... Coxswain Eric Ward eases the Mersey under Poole bridge for the last time.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
As briefly reported in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 154) a number of life-boat naming ceremonies have taken place.
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire: the 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur & Blanche Harris was named by...
Category: Inaugurations
Letters
Thirty-five years back • Commander Pearson's encounter with the lifeboat service off the Scottish coast during the last war, described in his letter published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, interested me very much. Having spent a...
Category: Correspondence