LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
President Garfield
ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE.—Signals of distress having been shown by the schooner President Garfield, of Amlwch, coal laden from Liverpool for Abersoch, which was lying at anchor in St. Tudwall's Beads during a moderate gale figom the...
Five Years and Three Months of War
In five years and three months of war our life-boats have rescued 5,895 lives from ships and aeroplanes. That is an average of 21 lives every week, or three lives rescued for every one during the 20 years of peace between the two...
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Paquita, of Santander
Very early on the morning of the 4th January, a vessel was seen on the Dogger Bank, off this coast, on which a rough sea was then breaking.
As soon as possible the smaller of the two Life-boats on this station, the Civil...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the...
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Calshot (Above): Every Five Months Or So 40001 Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Is Slipped on a Sunday Mid-Day Tide to Be Cleaned Below the Waterline
Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
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Pater
ARKLOW.—On the 30th March it was reported by the master of a fishing smack that a barque had grounded on the Arklow Bank. The Out-Pensioner Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and found she was the barque Pater, of Sundswall, Sweden,...
Margaret and Jane and Presilla
The No. 2 Life-boat, John Fielden, was launched at 8 A.M. on the 22nd January, in an E.S.E. gale and heavy sea, to the as- sistance of the fishing-boats Margaret and Jane and Priscilla, of Filey, and rescued the crews of eight men. The boats...
College Principal Sue Hennessy
College Principal Sue Hennessy. - View image in PDF
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Tempora Mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis
THE almost total disappearance of the old-fashioned small sailing coaster, the place of which baa been taken by steamers, coupled with the vastly improved con- ditions under which the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland are lighted, has...
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A Bag of Money Containing £1250 Was Handed to Coxswain Michael Scales of St.Peter Port After the Younger Members of Guernsey Yacht
A bag of money containing £1,250 was handed to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port after the younger members of Guernsey Yacht Club had competed in a bath tub race. Designs for racing bath tubs become more sophisticated every year... - View image in PDF
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