LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Falmouth's Severn class Richard Cox Scott on exercise on a calm, sunny day. - View image in PDF

EVERYBODY is complaining that trade and business are bad, and that as a result any effort to raise money for charitable purposes requires an operation similar to that time-honoured one of extracting "blood from a stone" ! It is sad...

The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 1,549.

Of these, 13 were lost in the Embla, wrecked near Blyth in a snow-storrn, on the 7th of January; 290 in the Tayleur, wrecked at...

When the war in Europe ended sixteen months ago, six life-boats were in the yard waiting to be finished. Four of them have since gone to the coast.

Of the 29 life-boats which the Institution had planned to build as soon as...

Cyclists gather round the camp fire. - View image in PDF

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...

. . . And a young son: Craig, the eldest son of Coxswain Fred Walkington of Bridlington, ready to take his place as one of the crew of the lifeboat float for the Bridlington Lions carnival last summer. The float won a cup and it also won... - View image in PDF

RONALDSWAY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1945, an Anson aeroplane came down in the sea near Ronaldsway, about 440 yards off shore. The weather was calm. Captain D. G. Pickard, of the Irish Guards, was out...