LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rip denied
On a sunny May afternoon, families flocked to the Cornish seaside for half-term. But it was no holiday for RNLI lifeguards at Porthtowan and Perranporth, who saved four lives from a strong rip current
Porthtowan Beach,...
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Margaret Armstrong: Life-Boat Heroine
THE small fishing-village of Cresswell, in Northumberland, lies about twenty miles north of the mouth of the Tyne.
It is not easy of access to visitors, for the nearest railway station on the main line, between Newcastle...
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The Help of Mayors and Mayoresses. A Record?
St. Albans Answers the Challenge.
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave the Southport Branch's record of mayoral help. The Mayor, during his term of office, serves as a member of the Branch Committee, while the...
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The Fishing Fleet
The Life - boat Queensbury was launched about 7.30 A.M. on the morning of the 9th June to render assistance to the fishing fleet, which had to return to harbour on account of the weather.
The cobles left for the fishing...
Articles Held Over
OWING to the space taken by the accounts of the winter gales and the report of the Prince of Wales's visit to Edinburgh and Glasgow, it has been.
necessary to hold over a number of articles and reports which otherwise...
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Queen of the Usk
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—During a very heavy gale from the S.E., on the 3rd March, the brigantine Queen of the Usk, of Whitehaven, bound from Kingstown to that port, in ballast, was riding very heavily in Douglas Bay, with two anchors down and...
Sarah
In a strong N.N.E. wind with snow squalls on the 18th March, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the Bay. The Life-boat Barbara, Fleming was launched with all speed and pro- ceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the ketch Sarah...
Aneurin
FALMOUTH.—The schooner Aneurin, Carnarvon, bound from Salcombe for Aberdovey in ballast, dragged her anchor in a gale from E.S.E. on the 4th February and showed signals of distress. The Life-boat Bob Newbon was launched 8.30 P.M., and was...
Venus
Plymouth, Devon.—At5.5 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that the motor vessel Venus, of Bergen, waiting to embark passengers for Madeira, had wirelessed that she was dragging her anchor in...
Lady Gladys
PENZANCE. — On the 4th March a whole gale blew from the W., the sea was high, and the weather very squally, with heavy showers of hail. At 9.30 A.M. the barque Lady Gladys, of Tonsberg, bound from Darien, U.S., to Dublin, with pitch pine,...