LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Mallaig, Inner Hebrides.—The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moor- ings at 6.30 in the evening of the 21st of March, 1948, in a south-west gale with a rough sea, to the help of a canoe.
She found her on the beach....
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Galway Bay.—At 2.30 in the morn- ing of the 18th of August, 1949, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take to the mainland a boy who was on holiday in Kilronan, had fallen ill, and must be operated on immediately. No other boat was...
A Christmas Gift
JUST before Christmas a packet was brought to the Institution by an official of the Post Office, who wished to be certain that it was intended for the Institution. It had the Oxford post- mark and was addressed "To life-boat...
Category: Donations
Lindy Lou
On the evening of the 26th of July, 1954, the Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire, life-boat Aguila Wren, after standing by for an hour in rough seas with a gale blowing from the south- west, rescued three people from the motor fishing vessel Lindy...
Mary Jane
Workington, Cumberland.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 23rd of January, 1955, a man reported that he had seen red Very lights off the entrance to the harbour. At 7.50 the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out. The sea was calm, there...
Religious Services
RELIGIOUS ceremonies associated with the Life-boat Service have been held in recent months in Bolton. Hoylake, New Brighton, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey in the north- west district of England; Bude, Clo- velly, Land's End...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 23rd of November, 1953, local fishing boats put to sea, but at 11.30 the coastguard reported that condi- tions at the harbour bar were danger- ous. At 11.45 the life-boat Howard D., on temporary duty at...
Margaret Anna
Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Margaret Anna was still at sea in bad weather.
At 3.15 the life-boat J. W. Archer was...
The S.S. Bruse
Sunderland, Durham. — About two o'clock early on the morning of the 5th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bruse, of Oslo, had broken down at the entrance to the harbour and was drifting dan- gerously near the South...
Hilda, Reliance and Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather on the 2nd January, 1939. A N.E. breeze wasblowing, with a rough sea. The Eagle came in and reported that the boats still at sea were in danger...