LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aubric
Arun tows yacht for 34 miles against NE gale Newhaven's Arun class Keith Anderson was involved in a long and arduous service on 4 April 1988 when she was at sea for nearly six-and-a-half hours in a NE gale, picking up her casualty and...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
Category: Articles
Annual Awards 1976
The Maud Smith Bequest for the bravest lifesaving act by a lifeboatman in 1976 has been made to Crew Member Glyn Roberts of Porthdinllaen for the rescue, last August, of two boys who were trapped on the cliffs. Glyn Roberts climbed almost...
Category: Awards
Eilae
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1954. the coxswain reported that four people had left Rock Ferry for a cruise in the 20-feet yacht Eilae about 1.45 and were now overdue. The Formby coastguard reported...
Szpak
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 9.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Longstone lighthouse-keeper had reported that a vessel had hove to on or near...
A Dinghy (14)
St. David's Pembrokeshire - At 5.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man who was standing on a rock near South Bishop lighthouse was signalling for assistance. There was sailing dinghy in...
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Injured boy A MESSAGE from a doctor was received by Criccieth ILB station at 1135 on Tuesday July 31, 1979. asking that a 12-year-old boy, injured when he fell from the rocks at Black Rock, should be taken off by inshore...
The Induna, of Egremont and The Yachts, The Puffin, Sheila, and Pastime
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
The Induna, of Egremont and The Yachts, The Puffin, Sheila, and Pastime (1)
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
Sarah Ann Dickinson
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—On the 4th February, at about 10 P.M., during a fresh breeze from S.S.W. the schooner Sarah Ann Dickinson, of Fleetwood, in approaching Ardrossan Harbour, ran on the Eagle Rock. A steam-tag proceeded to her and made an...