LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services (From Page 47)
(from page 47) east, near gale force 7, the sea moderate; visibility was good.
The honorary medical adviser could not embark as he was already at an emergency, but the injured man had been tended by a member of La Quintals...
Category: Services
Mr Ron Shardlow
Mr Ron Shardlow, honorary secretary of Keswick branch from 1979 to 1988..
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Conferences
North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
Category: Meetings
The Life-Boat to the Rescue. By a Fisherman
THE night was dark and stormy, The sea rolled mountains high, When our coxswain came in haste, And thus did breathless cry : Make haste and launch the Life-boat, A vessel's on the rocks; Be quick and get all ready; Now overhaul these...
Category: Poetry
The S.S. Corrientes
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 10.45 on the night of the 7th of April, 1953, a wireless message was received stating that a passenger in the S.S. Cor- rientes, of Glasgow, was seriously ill with a perforated stomach ulcer andasking if the...
An Aerial View of Ramsey Sound from the North the Bitches Can Be Seen As a Thin Line of Rocks Running Eastwards Into the Sound Off the Island of Ramsey on The
An aerial view of Ramsey Sound from the north. The Bitches can be seen as a thin line of rocks running eastwards into the sound off the island of Ramsey on the right.
Photograph by courtesy of West Air Photography.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
EASTBOURNE AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
—The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March...
Category: Services
The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet (1)
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
A Rubber Dinghy from a Wellington Bomber
OCTOBER 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 12.50 in the afternoon the landlord of the Crown Inn, on the sea front, was serving in his bar. The morning had been foggy, but at that moment the sun came through and as it did so...
An Aeroplane (15)
FEBRUARY 12TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but after an unsuccessful search it was learned that the crew had managed to get ashore near Boston.
- Rewards,...