LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elsie Annie
At 2 P.M. on 5th May the Coxswain received a telephone message from Wexford to the effect that a small steamer was on Wexford Bar in a very dangerous position, and the Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. was at once launched to her help. A whole E.N.E....
The Hythe Life-Boat Crew's Concert
A CONCERT, largely arranged and carried out by the Crew of the Motor Life-boat, was held at Hythe, Kent, on 29th and 30th January last. The notices warned purchasers of tickets that if a call for the Life-boat came, the concert would be...
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KISS OF LIFE
A 13-year-old’s quick thinking and love for his Dad keep them both alive when a February kayaking trip goes wrong
After a good breakfast, Paul Rowlands kissed his wife Julie goodbye and set off on an adventure with his son...
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Prize-Winning Essay
For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...
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Glenway
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.10 on the night of the 6th of May, 1951, a resident of Newport Hemsby telephoned that a ship was ashore off Newport Hemsby.
So at 10.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a choppy sea, with a...
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916 (Continued from Page 167). By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
ANOTHER distressing wreck occurred just to the north of the town, on Sunday morning, the 13th January, 1895, when, after a heavy S.E. by S.
gale all night with snow squalls, the brig James and Eleanor, of Shields, was seen...
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Englebert
During a moderate W.S.W. gale, accompanied by thunder, lightning and very heavy rain, on the 28th August, a vessel was pro- ceeding up the Solway Firth, and she was kept under observation. About 8 P.M. it was seen that a signal of dis- tress...
Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at...
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The Life-Boat Crew
MY theme is a very old one Yet one that's ever new, 'Tis about those sturdy heroes The gallant life-boat crew.
Each year they add fresh laurels To their glorious scroll of fame; Their daring deeds are known to all...
Category: Poetry
Louisa
CLOVELLY.—During a strong gale from "W.N.W. and a heavy sea, on the 9th February, the ketch Louisa, of Bideford, bound to that port from Newport, with coal, was at anchor off Clovelly, when she showed a signal of distress. The Life-boat...