LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hope, of Beaumaris
On the 5th June, whilst the life-boat on this station was returning after her quarterly exercise, the crew observed the schooner Hope, of Beau- maris, riding at anchor in a very perilous position in Cymmuran Bay. There was a gale of wind...
Coxswain Thomas Kyle, of Holy Island
Coxswain Thomas Kyle, proprietor of the Castle Hotel, Holy Island, who died in October, 1937, at the age of sixty-four, had served as coxswain of the Holy Island life-boats for two years, and as second coxswain for over twenty years. During...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. Punch In 1883. Ready! A Business-Like Ballad
My Lads, lend ear! There's a yarn to spin on an old but honest text.
When round our cliffs and our headlands hoar our winter seas are vext, When the waves are lashed by the wind- flouts wild that come with the condor...
Category: Poetry
The Ocean Youth Club's 70Ft Training Vessel Francis Drake
Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.
The yacht's auxiliary engine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Get Splashed Hall of Fame
The decision to find an overall winner was extremely difficult but in the end the category winners were: Catshill Rainbows, Bromsgrove Remember the Four Point Water Safety Code 13), Swanage Middle School, Swanage Home Education Advisory...
Category: Articles
Mrs Dorothy Parsons' Father, John Southerden (Left) Stands Guard Over the Rye Lifeboat After the Disaster - See Letter Above.
Mrs Dorothy Parsons' father, John Southerden (left) stands guard over the Rye lifeboat after the disaster - see letter above.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trust On, of Peterhead
JANUARY 31ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 in the evening, the coastguard reported a boat showing distress signals a mile and a half north of Peterhead, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Beyond the Call:
Beyond the call: many lifeboatmen are prepared to give up time fund raising in addition to hours spent at sea. Motor Mechanic Mike Beach (I) and Crew Member Derek Payne (r) of Newhaven have recently been awarded a framed certificate and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harlington, of Sunderland
About half-past 7 o'clock, P.M., on the 4th October last, during a gale from S.E., signal lights were seen off the Scroby Sand. The Caister life-boat was again launched, and in about an hour from the time the signals were seen she...
The Motor Yawl Ivy Lass
Walmer, Kent. At 7.52 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yawl Ivy Lass of Maldon was secured alongside the East Goodwin lightvessel, as she had run short of petrol....