LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lion, of Goole
BROADSTAIRS.—At 5 P.M., 12th March, the schooner Lion, of Goole, bound from Hull to the Isle of Wight, was observed driving before a heavy gale at north, with signals of distress flying. The signal guns of the station having failed to...
Seaside singing
The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival took place in June, with 23 groups from around Europe taking part. The event is one of the world’s biggest maritime music festivals, and one of its main aims is to raise money for the...
Category: Articles
Our Energetic Mr. Hawkes
No matter what is afoot—agricultural shows, flag days and so on—Mr.
A. W. Hawkes, who is an energetic member of the Ipswich branch, can be relied upon to go almost anywhere and to tackle almost any fund-raising scheme....
Category: Donations
Birthday Honours
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...
Category: Awards
Till Then
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 7th May, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht, with a crew cf two, off Marske appeared to have broken her top mast. There was a westerly gale with a...
People and Places
C ratty Draw Members of the Craft Club drew the winning tickets of the RNLI's 57th National Lottery at Headquarters on 30 April.
The Club ('Can't Remember A Flipping Thing') was founded by Jim Marsham and...
Category: Articles
Nestlea and Dereske
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Charles Livingstone (4)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
Catherine and Margaret
The schooner Catherine and Margaret, of Portmadoc, was at anchor on the llth March, in Porthdinllaen Bay, when in the prevailing N.N.W. gale her anchors commenced to drag. Signals of distress were made, and the Life-boat Barbara Fleming was...
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The Autumn ' 906Life-boatJournat congratulated female fundraisers for their hard work after another successful Lifeboat Saturday: 'They are less ready to take a refusal than the "sterner"sex, and, this being...
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