LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
On the even- ing of the 12th September fourteen of the fishing-boats belonging to Whitby went out to fish. Later the wind fresh- ened considerably from N.N.E. and bad weather followed, causing them to make for port again. About midnight,...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN McNp.iL, on his retirement, after serving for 1 year as coxswain, 8J years as second coxswain and 6J years as bowman of the Barra Island life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To THOMAS...
Category: Awards
Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—Shortly be- fore 9 A.M. on the 25th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that the trawler Star of Victory, of Aberdeen, was ashore off Keiss in Sinclair Bay.
A light N.N.E. wind was blowing. The sea...
Lifeboat People
Mr D. K. Redford, who is a member of the Committee of Management, was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List.
* * * After double gold medallist Dick Evans, ex coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat, took part in the BBC...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
TUB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 274 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 282 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
"Light of All Nations" on the Goodwin Sands
THE following letter has been forwarded to the Committee of this Institution, to which, considering the great importance of the subject, and the apparent feasibility of the proposition, we give insertion, as we fully concur in Mr....
Category: Correspondence
Twenty Best Branches: A Correction
In the last issue of The Lifeboat, in the article on the twenty Branches with the highest collections in the year 1929- 30, Clacton-on-Sea was given, as having been sixteenth in the previous year, but as having fallen out of the first...
Category: Branches
Britannia, of North Shields
On the night of the 12th January the barque Britannia, of North Shields, bound from Mauritius to Greenock, got on shore, in moderate weather, on the north side of Port Logan Bay; the crew saving them- selves by climbing over the rocks at low...
Pacific
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...