LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shortly after 7 P.M. on the 31st August a telephone message was received, stating that the schooner Flower of Portsoy, of Plymouth, was aground on the Platter Rocks, in Holyhead Bay.

The Cemlyn Life-boat, Anne Collin, was...

An everyday scene which even the complacent Australian cannot take for granted is the surf boat crews battling their way through the wildest surf. They make an unforgettable sight on the shoreward run with the five-man crew crowded at the...

BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—The lugger Mary, of Buckle, was taken off the beach, at about midnight on the 30th April, in order to proceed to Gluny Harbour to be fitted out for the west coast herring fishery. A whole gale suddenly sprung up from...

AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: Knight Bachelor: Alderman Martin Wallace, J.P., former president of the Belfast branch.

Companion of the...

NOVEMBER 20TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

At 11.10 A.M. a steamer was seen to be aground on Robin Rigg Bank, about five miles north of Maryport. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Visibility was very bad. At 11...

ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...

As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...

HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE.—At about 5 P.M. on the 7th April, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and cold and squally weather, the Coxswain of the Life-boat who was working on the island, saw a flat driven...