LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
All on a Winter's Night
I WAS just finishing my tea and con- gratulating myself that we had no calls for a fortnight, although it was winter and a stormy one at that, when the news came. There was a loud, sharp knock at the door. Bess (my wife) looked up from...
Category: Articles
Patriot, of Wexford
AUGUST 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At nine in the evening a telephone message from the military lookout post at Greenore Point reported that the motor fishing boat Patriot, of Wexford, appeared to have broken down and to be flying...
Moss Bay
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
The Rosslare Harbour Naming Ceremony
Left to right: The Bishop of Ferns, Mrs. Sean O'Kelly, the Mayor of Wexford, Commodore the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.R.D., P.C., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the Institution (See page 40!). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Presentations to the Cromer Crew
Mr. George F. Shee, Secretary of the Institution, handing Coxswain Blogg the Vellum of Thanks recording the award of the Second Service Clasp to his Gold Medal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Death of Mr. John Walter. Memento Mori
MYSTERIOUS are the ways of God to man! We would willingly believe, nay, we dare not disbelieve, that God's dealings with man are always just; that whatever direction his journey through life may take, or terminate when or how it may, it...
Category: Obituaries
Ramsgate Lifeboat Ralph and Joy Swann Photographed Bv Ray Noble a Crew Member on the Night Gloire a Marie II Was Saved
Ramsgate lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, photographed bv Ray Noble, a crew member on the night Gloire a Marie II was saved.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Betty, of Cork
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1949, the chairman of the Youghal life- boat station telephoned that he was anxious for the safety of his son and another man who had left Youghal for Cork in...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...