LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NOVEMBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 1.19 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard telephoned that a motor vessel was making for St. Ives Bay and required a pilot. A strong north wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, and...
His Majesty King George VI
BY the death on the 6th of February, of His Majesty King George VI, the Life-boat Service lost not only a beloved Sovereign but its own Patron.
He had carried on the tradition of over a century and a quarter that the...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
FOWEY (POLKERRIS), CORNWALL. On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request...
Category: Services
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely ty Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
Category: Articles
Spray
Lengthy search but no survivors It is an unfortunate fact that some lifeboat services do not result in the rescue of survivors, a result which inevitably has an effect on the lifeboat crews but which does not affect their dedication to the...
Thrift
While the local fishing fleet were at sea on the 2nd November the weather broke, and a strong south breeze sprang up, with a rough sea. All boats except the Thrift got safely in, and the motor life- boat L. P. & St. Helen was launched at...
Having Been Given a Monster Potato By a Customer the Landlord of the Sir Douglas Haig Effingham Rod Davis and His Wife Jean Held a Competition to Guess How
Having been given a monster potato by a customer, the landlord of The Sir Douglas Haig, Effingham, Rod Davis, and his wife, Jean, held a competition to guess how many bags of crisps could be made from it. At lOp a guess, £23.60 was soon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Brave Swimmer. Award of Bronze Medal
Ix the early afternoon of 27th August last a small steamer. Kendy, of Cardiff, got into difficulties off Porthcawl in Glamorganshire, and foundered. The Crew took to the boat, but it capsized, and, with the men clinging to it, drifted...
Category: Medals
Big Cat
Trawler driven ashore in Force 9 southerly gale and 30ft seas Valentia - Ireland Division Valentia's Arun class lifeboat Margaret Frances Love was involved in a major incident on 13 January 1989 when the large, Brixham-registered trawler...
Swan, Industry, and Mulgrave
The same life-boat, on the 2nd January, 1868, was again called into requisition:— About 7 P.M. of that day, the steam-tug Swan, which was towing the sloop Industry and the schooner Mulgrave into Whitby harbour, struck against the pier, in...