LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lives and Yacht Saved
COXSWAIN JOHN Fox and the young crew of the Shoreham life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the rescue of two people from a...
Category: Services
The Passenger Ferry Laerling
Thirty one passengers rescued from ferry aground on rocks The Chairman of the the Institution, Michael Vernon, has written to the coxswain and crew of the Lerwick lifeboat after the rescue of 31 passengers, mostly elderly, from a stranded...
Seventy Pounds from the "Sea Microcosm."
IN The Lifeboat for June, 1929, it was announced that Dorothy Una Ratcliffe- Brotherton, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., of Leeds, had very kindly decided to devote the gross profits of the current number of her literary and artistic magazine, The...
Category: Donations
The Danish Fishing Vessels Dora Veno and Peter Veno
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 30th of No- vember, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making a flare off North Head. At 5.55 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow, was launched in a moderate sea...
Youngsters 'Bop the Night Away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball
Youngsters 'bop the night away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball. Photo Paul Reid. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 18th March the local fishing fleet were out fishing, and at about noon the sea began to grow very rapidly and the weather looked very threatening. At a little after one o'clock, as the sea was breaking heavily...
The S.S. West Hika
Seaham, Durham.—On the evening of the 15th January the s.s. West Hika, of Mobile, U.S.A., sent out a wireless call for help. She was a vessel of over three thousand tons, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and had gone...
Silanion
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30 P.M., and the Thurso motor life-boat H.C.J. at 11 P.M., on the 25th February, as news had been received from the coastguard...
Pelton
JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The No. 1 life-boat H. F. Bailey was at Gorleston, where she had put in after a service. While she was there news was received that a vessel was being attacked by enemy aircraft in Yarmouth...
Centenary of the Poolbeg Station
A LIFE-BOAT, built in Dublin, was stationed at Poolbeg by the Dublin Ballast Board in 1820, four years before the Institution was founded. It was " at the entrance of the River Liffey ; kept on the quay, near a crane." It is known...
Category: Articles