LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Richard Walsh, of the Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, life-boat—the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley which is described on page 678. He became bowman in 1938, second coxswain in 1941 and finally coxswain in 1946. Coxswain Walsh was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maxim, of St. John's
DROGHEDA.—Shortly after midnight of the 25th September, the brigantine Maxim of St. John's, N.B., bound from Liverpool to St. John's, went ashore two miles north of Drogheda Bar. It was blowing hard at the time from E.S.E., with a...
November Gales. Launches of Life-Boats 26th—30th November, 1954
Life-boat Friday 26th Lerwick Aldeburgh Filey Yarmouth, I.o.W.
Valemia Saturday 27th Fishguard Southend-on-Sea Lizard Newhaven St. David's Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued S.S. Granfoss ' 23 Trawler Pinguin 12 8...
Category: Services
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
SICK MAN LANDED At 11.40 a.m. on 2ist May, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message that there was a sick man on board the Coningbeg light-vessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched on the ebbing tide at 11.55. There was...
Sidelights on Stations . . .
A FEBRUARY gale swept the Lytham St. Anne's life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt from her moorings and eight of her crew had to set off in pursuit in the boarding boat. After a chase for a mile and a half towards Freckleton Marshes they were...
Category: Articles
And They'Re Off!
And they're off! These happy toddlers look part in a race at a fun day organised at Endcliffe Park in aid of the City of Sheffield lifeboat appeal. Crowds of more than 5,000 turned up to see, among other things, a junior fancy dress... - View image in PDF
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St.Ives Lions Club Has Chosen As Its Special Project for 1977 the Funding of a Replacement Ilb for the Lifeboat Station; Club Members With Lifeboatmen and Branch Offici
St Ives Lions Club has chosen as its special project for 1977 the funding of a replacement ILB for the lifeboat station; club members with lifeboatmen and branch officials are already making slipway collections, teddy bears are being raffled... - View image in PDF
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30 Months of War.
In the first thirty months of war Life-boats have rescued 4636 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last thirteen yearu of peace. They are rescuing nearly two lives for every life rescued in the last trar,...
Category: Articles
Isabella Heron, of Blyth
During a strong gale from the S.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th March, the George Houn&field Life-boat put off and succeeded in taking into Harwich harbour the distressed brigantine Isabella Heron, of Blyth, and...
The Viscount and Viscountess Wakefield With Their Life-Boat at Hythe
The Viscount and Viscountess Wakefield With Their Life-Boat at Hythe. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs