LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Balloon Races
FOUR branches have carried out balloon races with great success this year.
At St. Albans, where the race was being held for the third time, about a thousand balloons were sent off, of which eighty-five were...
Category: Articles
Gansey
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.^At 10.30 on the night of the 22nd of December, 1955, a telephone message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service in Dub- lin that the motor vessel Gansey, of Castletown, had wirelessed that she had damaged her...
New Dawn and Annette
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.14 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored in a dangerous position in heavy seas half a mile south-west of Sandown pier. At 7.26...
Diana
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
Arthur Lowe
It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.
Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly...
Category: Obituaries
Hon Secretaries' Courses Under Way
WALES AND THE WEST COUNTRY S6t the ball rolling in June when around a dozen station honorary secretaries from those areas attended the first training course aimed specifically at their role within the RNLI.
Training officer...
Category: Articles
Two Boats
Launch team praised THE STORMS which battered the south east coast of England last autumn left Eastbourne lifeboat station behind a three foot high sandbank, 30ft in length.
At 1913 on November 1, 1987, Coxswain Graham Cole...
The American Liberty Ship T. A. Johnston, of Pensecola (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
About ten at night the coastguard reported to the Swanage life-boat station that a steamer was ashore off Egmont Point, west of St. Albans Head. The motor life...
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands,...
Category: Poetry
The Danish Motor Fishing Boat Koivisto
ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...