LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saved for a Third Time
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.
Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four...
Category: Services
Councillor Mrs Sheila Mcqueen Mayor of Bournemouth
Councillor Mrs Sheila McQueen, Mayor of Bournemouth, sets Bournemouth lifeboat dav on its way, buying the first sticker from ladies' guild chairman, Mrs Majorie Agar. The total collected in flag week 1982 by all Bournemouth branches and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Boats St. Mary and Irish Leader
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 10th of September, 1952, it was reported by the life-boat bowman that a motor fishing boat was flying a signal of distress one mile west- by-north of Ballycotton Light. At 11.55 the...
The St. Gowan Lightvessel
On the night of the 21st-22nd Sep- tember, 1953, the Tenby life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the St.
Gowan lightvessel, which was in distress in very bad weather. For a full account of this service and for the awards...
The Largest Tricycle In the World
The largest tricycle in the world, fixed securely to the Arndale Centre floor, was used by Poole Round Table to raise money for a replacement lifeboat under 10 metres for the local lifeboat station.
Poole lifeboat crew,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries
The Converted Ship's Boat Dorothy
Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1954, the St. Aldhelm's Head coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties about two miles east of the Head. At six o'clock the life- boat R....
Handy, of Wexford
On the 8th May the schooner Handy, of Wexford, was stranded in the South Bay during a strong N.E. gale and in a very heavy sea. The Civil Service life-boat went off and rescued 4 men of the vessel's crew. Owing to the violence of the sea...
The Motor Yawl Falcon
At 1.30 A.M. on the morning of the 14th January, the police informed the Coastguard that the motor yawl Falcon, of Broughty Ferry, was adrift somewhere in the Tay with fifteen men on board. She had left Tayport at 10 P.M. the previous...
The S.S. Coral Sea
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.10 in the morning of the 17th of February, 1948, the motor life-boat S.G.E. put out, with a doctor on board, to the s.s.
Coral Sea, of New York, bound in ballast from Southampton to New...