LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary, of Laxey
The Life-boat Two Sisters proceeded from this port on the 22nd October, and saved the crew of the schooner Mary, of Laxey, during a strong gale from N.N.W. and a heavy sea; the service was promptly rendered in a manner highly creditable to...
Last word
The Summer months have proved to be a busy time for our lifesavers – as many of our supporters’ emails show.
'It happened in seconds'
On Wednesday 24 July my son, Tad...
Category: Articles
Alderney Wins the Cup!
Steve Shaw (left) receives the award from General Sir Michael Walker, Commander- in-Chief HQ Land and Admiral of Army Sailing Association. See 'Lifeboat Services' page 14 for a report of the lifeboal service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat
AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.
She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...
Category: Articles
The Coningbeg Lightvessel (1)
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 18th of May, 1950, the Inspector of the Irish Lights telephoned to ask the life-boat to go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel and bring ashore a lightkeeper whose father was dying....
A Small Boat (2)
On the 22nd March a small boat left the main- land for Ramsey Island with two men, a pig and a lamb on board. The boat got into difficulties when about half- way across Ramsey Sound, and, drift- ing with the tide, began to bump along the...
The S.S. Caudebec
Falmouth, Cornwall. —• About four o'clock in the afternoon of the 2nd ofFebruary, 1950, a message was received that a vessel was dragging and in danger of going on the rocks at Black Rock, in Falmouth Harbour. At 4.15 the...
Mersey
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 2nd April, while a strong breeze was blowing from the S., the schooner Mersey, of Dublin, bound from Waterford, in ballast, for Point of Ayre, anchored near the rocks outside Conister. She was then in a dangerous...
Herring Boats
A strong N.E. gale raised a nasty sea on the 2nd July, and about mid-day it increased so much that it was extremely dangerous to some of the herring-boats, which were waiting to come in on the flood tide. The life- saving apparatus was...
A Canoe
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 12.9 p.m.
on 2nd May, 1967, news was received that a canoe had capsized outside the harbour entrance. The life-boat Margaret slipped her moorings at 12.11 in a strong north westerly wind and a...