LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...
Category: Articles
The Sail Training Ship Malcolm Miller
Sick watch-leader evacuated from sail training ship WHILE St Helier's Tyne was away for engine repairs (see story page 4) the relief Waveney Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse I! was involved in a medical evacuation from the 130ft sail...
A Double Baptism Aboard Appledore Lifeboat: on Sunday March 5 the Reverend Donald L Peyton Jones Vicar of Appledore and Priest-In-Charge of Lundy Island Ch
A double baptism aboard Appledore lifeboat: On Sunday March 5 The Reverend Donald L. Peyton Jones, Vicar of Appledore and Priest-in-charge of Lundy Island, christened Faye, daughter of Clifford and Angela Edwards, and Matthew Roy, son of Roy... - View image in PDF
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Heroines
Recently, people of all ages remembered the bravery of a lifesaver who battled fierce seas in a little rowing boat to carry out a rescue 175 years ago. This was no archetypal Victorian coxswain, but a lighthousekeeper’s...
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Freda, Star of Hope and Radiant Morn
The Staithes fishing fleet put out at 5 a.M. on the 20th December in moderate weather.
Later the wind got .up, and by 10.30 A.M. a moderate and increasing N.N.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Isle of Man. Douglas. Concert and Thanksgiving Service
Concert and Thanksgiving Service.
The Centenary Celebrations in Douglas were held on Saturday and Sunday, May 22nd and 23rd, the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., going to Douglas specially...
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Personal Assistant to the Secretary
LIEUT.-COL. CHARLES EARLE, D.S.O., O.B.E., has been appointed Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown.
Lieut.-Colonel Earle was born in 1913 and educated at Wellington and the...
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Coxswain D. J. Lewis of St. David's Receives the Bronze Medal
Coxswain D J Lewis of St David's Receives The Bronze Medal. - View image in PDF
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Gustave
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
The Open Sailing Boat Chance
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.12 P.M. on the 4th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small open sailing boat, about a mile and a half from the lookout, was making very heavy weather.
The crew were bailing and she...