LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): Before the Naming Ceremony Began a Souvenir Programme Was Presented to the Duke of Kent By Catherine Piggot (Right) Daughter of Cre
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): Before the naming ceremony began a souvenir programme was presented to the Duke of Kent by Catherine Piggot (right), daughter of Crew Member Alastair Piggot. After the ceremony Coxswain John Jack and his crew took... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Services In 1901
Lives saved.
Astrsea, schooner, of Dartmouth—• rendered assistance.
Alfred, ketch, of Padstow—rendered assistance and landed 4.
Ardlethen, P.S., of Aberdeen—ren- dered...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Lads
THE howling winds with cruel moan And three brave men lie cold in death, Blow hard across the sea: Fast in the rigging caught: The Captain shouts "Haul in, haul in! To save the ship...
Category: Songs
The RNLI reserve Life-Boat Edward Z. Dresden (O.N. 707)
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 6.37 p.m. on ipth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Royal National Life-boat Institution's reserve life-boat Edward Z Dresden (O.N. 707) on passage from Workington to...
Sincerity
Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...
Thom
DROGHEDA.—On the 11th May, at about 11.30 A.M., a vessel was reported to be in distress outside the Bar. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, John Rutter Qhorley, were assembled, and the boat was launched as quickly as possible and proceeded out...
Minnie Eaton
During a strong southerly gale and heavy sea on the 15th March, signals of distress were seen from a vessel near the Barber Sands, and the Life-boat John Burch was launched and proceeded in the direction of the signals. On reaching the...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the west coast of Ireland. He has been cox- swain since October, 1928, and is one of the seven coxswains who won the gold medal for conspicuous gallantry during the war of...
Category: Articles
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.25 on the night of the 12th of August, 1949, a request was received from the county officer of St. John's Ambulance for the use of the life-boat to fetch a sick woman from Herm. She was a Giiernsey...
The Rock Lightvessel
The Cox- swain was informed at 5.50 P.M. on the 15th November that the Barrels Rock Light-vessel had fired a rocket, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat John Dunn was launched in a strong S.E. breeze with a rough sea. She found that the...