LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Films Available
Three new films are now available to branches. All are in colour and 16 m.m.
sound.
One of the new films. From Baltimore to Littlehampton, which runs for 12 minutes, tells the story of how the 44-foot...
Category: Articles
Holyhead and District Guild
Holyhead and District guild held a coffee morning and annual prize draw in August which raised over £1,500. Anglesey MP Keith Best (r) was at the event and is seen here with (from I) Mrs Ethel Davidson, guild president, Mrs Mabel Self,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (3)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two children were stranded on Sully Island by the rising tide. At 10.10 the life-boat Rachel and Mary...
Castilian, of London
About midnight on the 4th December, during a strong wind from the S.W., and in a heavy sea, the ship Castilian, of London, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with timber, took the ground on the south side of Portmadoc...
Gladys
At 12.15 P.M.
on the 4th August the smack Gladys, of Lowestoft, was observed on the Bar- ber Sands, and the No. 2 Life-boat, Nancy Lucy was launched to assist her.
The wind was blowing strongly from the...
Schools for Sailors. Third Article
SCHOOLS FOR SAILORS.* THIRD ARTICLE.
IN completion of what I have before said, while advocating the claims of sailors upon public aid for special instruction, I will now only make a few supplementary remarks upon the...
Category: Articles
A Motor Fishing Boat
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1951, the honorary secre- tary was on the sea front and saw a local motor fishing boat two miles to the west of the life-boat station drift- ing rapidly. She had...
Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Station
BY the death of Miss Letitia French, of Palling, Suffolk, on 6th April, the Institution has lost a most valued helper and one who had the distinction of having been, for a number of years, the only woman Honorary Secretary of a Station. Miss...
Category: Obituaries
The Old Salcombe Life-Boat Sarah Ann Holden
Salcombe, Devon.-—The motor lifeboat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 9.45 P.M. on the 8th August in response to flares reported by Bolt Head coastguard four miles west of Bolt. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth....