LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Transport Workers and the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a cheque from the Walthamstow Branch of the Transport and General "Workers' Union, and with it a letter, in which, the Branch Secretary writes:— " I hope to send a similar cheque every quarter. It...
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People and Places
Lottery The RNLFs national lottery, which has so far raised more than £1 million for the Institution's funds, now has increased prize money on offer for the 20 winners of each quarter's draw.
The first prize...
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Rising to the challenge
January’s storms called our volunteers into action in hazardous conditions that pushed our people and craft to their limits
The New Year had hardly begun when Penlee and The Lizard lifeboat...
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Daisy
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—A signal of distress having been observed during a S.S.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 4th January, the Douglas No, 2 Life-boat John Turner Turner was launched at 5 A.M., and found the schooner Daisy, of Chester,...
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Penlee, Cornwall. — Owing to the prolonged bad weather at the end of January and the beginning of February, it had been impossible to relieve the keepers of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, and the relief was so long overdue that they had run very...
Argo
On the evening of the 30th May the coastguard reported that a yacht was on, or just off, the West Rocks, apparently in difficulties. A strong E. by N. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The yacht seemed unable to get away from the rock...
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of May, 1952, the Civic Guard reported that a boy had fallen down a cliff about one and a half miles from the harbour to the east of Howth Head. The life-boat R.P.L.
was...
Emmiman
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 12.55 early on the morning of the 14th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had fired rockets in Largo Bay. At 1.30 the life-boatJames and Ruby Jackson was launched.
The...
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 28th of March, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, which had a crew of five, had run ashore on the eastern side of Barra Island....
Maria
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 12.10 early on the morning of the 4th of June, 1958, a message was received from the fishing boat Maria of Waterford that she was aground on Perch Rock at Portmagee.
At 12.30 the life-boat Rowland...