LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Fishing Vessels Dora Veno and Peter Veno
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 30th of No- vember, 1950, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making a flare off North Head. At 5.55 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow, was launched in a moderate sea...
Youngsters 'Bop the Night Away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball
Youngsters 'bop the night away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball. Photo Paul Reid. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MISSION: accomplished
Rad Hart-George and Nick Pleydell-Bouverie's journey began with an epic vision: to cycle the entire British coastline, visiting every lifeboat station along the way and raising money to help save lives at sea. And this Summer, they...
Category: Articles
Coventry Junior and Infant Schools
Edward Mockett, Coventry branch honorary secretary, receives a collecting box back from pupils of one of the 21 Coventry junior and infant schools which between them collected £160 for the RNLI.
photograph by courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
Dear Editor
I wonder if you can pass on my good wishes to those three lifeguards who saved the lives of the 40 children and teachers on the beach with the disappearing sandbank. The Summer holidays would have been...
Category: Articles
A Raft
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 22nd of June, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report from the Rhyl police that a child was adrift on a rubber raft, which was floating out to sea off the Golden Sands...
Small Boats, a Dinghy and Red Peg
Small boats in trouble Tenby - West Division Tenby's D class inflatable Charlie B was called to three small-boat casualties in two days during the late spring bank holiday when strong westerly winds reached Force 8. Two calls on one day...
The S.S. Vancouver City
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—14th Sep- ** tember, 1939. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless SOS call from the s.s. Vancouver City, of Bideford.
She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons...
Ingrea, of Amsterdam
While the wind was blowing a gale on the 24th February, the Gull Light-ship fired signals of distress for a ship on the Goodwin, and the Van Kook life-boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the sands, when the ship Ingrie, of Amsterdam,...
Centenary of the Poolbeg Station
A LIFE-BOAT, built in Dublin, was stationed at Poolbeg by the Dublin Ballast Board in 1820, four years before the Institution was founded. It was " at the entrance of the River Liffey ; kept on the quay, near a crane." It is known...
Category: Articles