LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Conferences
North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
Category: Meetings
Sepoy Rescue Anniversary
The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.
At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...
Category: Articles
Mischief, of Carnarvon
On 24th January following the life-boat again went out, during a hurricane from the S., to the assistance of the schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, which had gone ashore on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of the...
Theodorus, of Liverpool
On the 30th October, during a gale from W.N.W., the schooner Theodorus, of Liverpool, was stranded on the north-west end of the Salt- house Bank. The Robert William life-boat put out and brought ashore 12 of the crew.
The...
Swift
CRBSSWELL, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.—Signals of distress were observed at 3 A.M. on the 14th January during a S.S.E. wind and a moderate sea, the weather at the time being hazy. The Old Potter Life-boat was at once launched, proceeded in the...
Three Fishing Vessels
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—While a tremendous gale of wind was blowing from N.W. on the morning of the 16th June the Life-boat MayJiew Medwin was launched to the assistance of three fishing vessels which were attempting to return to the harbour. The...
Cullercoats Disaster Fund
THE fund which the Mayor of Tyne- mouth opened to supplement the pensions paid by the Institution to the dependent relatives of the men who lost their lives when the Cullercoats motor life-boat capsized on exercise on 22nd April, 1939, was...
Category: Articles
Hero
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1949, the Gravir Post Office telephoned that a vessel between the Shiant Isles was sounding her whistle, and the life- boat William and Harriot was launched at...
Is It War?
A LITTLE while ago a woman visitor at one of the life-boat stations was talking one evening to the motor mechanic near the life-boathouse. As they talked they watched an aeroplane passing overhead. It was just above them when the life-boat...
Category: Articles
A Boat (4)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 6.30 p.m. on loth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat with two people on board had been sighted in difficulties 150 yards off shore. The honorary secretary and the mechanic used the...