LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surf and turf
On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
Category: Articles
None (2)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the evening of the llth of October, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick man from Barra to South Uist, as the air ambu- lance could not land because of tidal conditions....
Mrs Mary Cavell,
October 1995 Mrs Mary Cavell, founder member of the Goodwin Sands and Downs Ladies' lifeboat guild, became the first honorary secretary of the guild in 1952 until 1972 when she remained at committee member until 1983. She was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
Lucy B., of Rye
Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
On 2nd November, 1930, at 10.30 in the morning, the Selsey and Bognor Motor Life-boat was launched, as news had been received that a vessel was in difficulties to the west of Selsey Bill. A W.S.W...
French Reward to a British Seaman
In the year 1854 a French ship, named the Aigle, was lost on the Spanish Main ; but, owing to the exertions of Captain JONES, of Portmadoc, then in command of the British ship Enterprise, the crew of the Aigle were fortunately saved. Captain...
Category: Medals
Pictured Below L-R: Tower Pier Lifeboat Crew Members Kaverne Bailey (23), Michael 'Fester' Sinacola (38) and Ian Barnaby (44)
Pictured below L-R: Tower Pier lifeboat Crew Members Kaverne Bailey (23), Michael 'Fester' Sinacola (38) and Ian Barnaby (44) Pictured right and bottom right: Bill Callaghan is a yeoman at the Tower of London - and a volunteer at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flower of Portsoy
Shortly after 7 P.M. on the 31st August a telephone message was received, stating that the schooner Flower of Portsoy, of Plymouth, was aground on the Platter Rocks, in Holyhead Bay.
The Cemlyn Life-boat, Anne Collin, was...
A Small Boat (2)
At 6.50 P.M. on the 30th April a message was received from the Coastguard at Shoreham that a small boat had cap- sized about half a mile off the Towers, West Worthing. The Motor Life-boat Samuel Oakes was launched at 7.12...
From a Poor Children's Camp
A GIFT of 5s. 8d. has been received from a holiday camp of 180 poor children of Hull. These children were sent for a holiday by friends to a camp on the Humber, near the life-boat station at Spurn Point. They asked their officers if they...
Category: Donations