LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
CONDITIONS OUTSIDE LIMITS FOR D CLASS Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of...
Category: Services
(Above) at Penlee Autumn Fay Re Nick and Sue Leslie Twin Daughters of Dr D W L Leslie Chairman of the Branch Kept Up a Brisk Trade In Shoreline Membership An
(Above) At Penlee autumn fay re, Nick and Sue Leslie, twin daughters of Dr D. W. L. Leslie, chairman of the branch, kept up a brisk trade in Shoreline membership and raffle tickets. Dr Leslie gives up all his spare time to the RNLI and his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Floran
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 8.20 on the evening of the llth of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Turnberry lighthouse-keeper had reported that an auxiliary yacht had stopped, but was using a small sail between...
Youghals Atlantic 21 In Full Cry
Youghals Atlantic 21 In Full Cry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6 A.M. on the 8th April the Coastguard reported that a three-masted steamer was ashore on the north side of Rattray Head. The No. 1 Life-boat George Pickard was launched without delay and proceeded, under sails,...
Category: Services
The S.S Hawkwood
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
The Voyage. By Alfred Tennyson, Esq.
WE left behind the painted buoy" That tosses at the harbour-mouth; And madly danced our hearts with joy, As fast we fleeted to the South; How fresh was every sight and sound On open main or winding shore ! We knew the merry world was...
Category: Poetry
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
Category: Donations
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Institution's Storeyard is at Poplar, in a district of London where there is a great deal of poverty, and at Christmas last year it gave a Tea and Entertainment to over 150 children.
It was entirely arranged and...
Category: Articles
Two Life-Boat Families. The Wiggs, of Kessingland, and the Stone-Houses, of Teesmouth and Redcar
THE Institution, at the end of last year, awarded a special Vellum to Mr.
Edward Wigg, sen., of Kessingland, in recognition of the exceptional services which he and his family have rendered to the Life-boat Service. He...
Category: Articles