LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Friends of Killyleigh
During the afternoon of the 26th February, the Life-boat Tyretta, in answer to signals of distress, was launched to the assistance of the schooner Friends, of Killyleigh, which vessel having had all her sails blown away while on a voyage...
Dorshie
— On the afternoon of the 6th November the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel, one and a half miles S.E. of St. Mary's Island, was showing signals of distress. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell, and a...
A Silent Appeal
A NOVEL form of appeal was tried in Norwich this year. In place of a life-boat flag day, a silent appeal was made. There were no collectors.
Instead twenty-six large life-boat col- lecting boxes, hung on davits, were placed...
Category: Donations
Patricia Joan
Dungeness, Kent. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of February, 1958, the wife of a local fisherman told the second coxswain that she had heard on the trawler wave-band on her radio that the motor vessel Clarity and the fishing...
A Motor Boat From H.M.S. Conway
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo...
Belarita and Mionne
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.35 oil the evening of the 26th of December, 1953, a man at Jethou reported that the local fishing boat Belarita, which had engine trouble, had left for St.
Sampson's in tow of the motor...
Athenian
At 11.45 A.M.
on 12th May the Honorary Secretary received a telephone message from the Coastguard at Kirkwall that a trawler was ashore on Skea Skerries, Westray Firth, and that the skipper was still on board. As there was...
The Folkestone Branch
No one of the 1,136 branches of the institution can equal in the number of its activities the record of Folke- stone for the first three months of the year. There were nine in all— in January a lecture and a dance, in February a bridge party...
Category: Branches
Announcement
The January number of THE LIFE-BOAT, which was the first edition in the new format, was delayed by the postal strike and many readers did not receive copies until well into March. In that issue we stated that those who have hitherto received...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
The three medallists in London for their awards, photographed on the South Bank.
They are (I to r) Helmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton, bronze medal. Coxswain/ Mechanic Ron Cannon of Ramsgate, silver medal and Second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs