LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
Category: Articles
Inshore Rescue Boats Services
From October, 1963, to March, 1964, the inshore rescue boats were launched on service four times. The following is the list of services or attempted services: Date 1963 October 5: October 13: 1964 March 15: March 20: Station Whitstable...
Category: Services
An Aircraft
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—22nd September, 1938. The police reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea.
The life-boat found an oil patch and dragged with grappling irons for a sunken aeroplane, but could find...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1932.
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29 16 0 Mi HHa BHMi BBBBBH*HMB Construction and Repair of Life- boats, Carriages and...
Category: Accounts
Our Nautical Aptitudes
AT the dispersion of the children of Israel in the land of Canaan, it had been predicted by Moses that Zebulon would dwell upon the coast, and suck of the abundance of the seas. Thus the tribe of Zebulon became a purely mercantile and...
Category: Articles
Sand Star
ARM SEVERED Swanage, Dorset. At 8.45 p.m. on 9th June, 1965, while the assistant honorary secretary, coxswain and other members of the life-boat crew were preparing for the local Ladies Guild fair to be held on the roth June, the...
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Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...
Annual Awards 1977
The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman in 1977 has been given to Coxswain Thomas Walsh of Kilmore.
On December 24 the lifeboat under his command was capsized twice while investigating...
Category: Awards
Phyllis
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER At 7.5 a.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Phyllis was adrift about four miles south-south-east of North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a rough sea with a...
Galway Life-Boat Meets Atlantic Rowers
When English Rose HI, rowed by Capt. John Ridgway (20) and Sergeant Chay Blyth (20), was sighted off the North Aran light house on 3rd September, 1966, at the end of its epic 92 day 3,000 mile voyage from Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A., the...
Category: Articles