LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"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
Sam Baxter Mbe,
MAY 1995 Sam Baxter MBE, honorary life president of Morecambe & Heysham financial branch.
Serving as honorary secretary of Morecambe lifeboat station from 1967 to 1978 and deputy launching authority from 1978 to 1991,...
Category: Obituaries
Opening the Box
Cashing up are Richard Wright /centre! with (from left) Cyril, Jean and Neil Tysall and FtNLI area organiser, James Bradbury. - View image in PDF
Photo: Birmingham Post and Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Open All Hours
Open all Hours Nearly all of the Institution's 215 lifeboat stations held a special open day during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, most of them opening on the Sunday, 28 May.
An estimated 65,000 people visited... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Samanco
CARNSORE, IRELAND.—On the morning of the 14th December, a mounted messenger arrived at the Life-boat station, stating that the services of the boat were required by a vessel on the Carrick Rocks, Greenore Point. The Life-boat Isis was...
St. Olof
On the 10th November, signals ol distress having been shown by the Cork Light, the Life-boat Springwett was launched at 2.45 A.M., and on arriving at the Cork Light found that they were answering signals from the Sunk...
Thetis
The Licensed Victualler life-boat at Hunstanton saved the crew of 16 men of the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg, which had stranded on the Wool Pack Sand, about seven miles from Hunstanton.
Venus
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—At about 3.45 P.M. on the 16th February it was reported that a vessel was ashore on Shell Wharf. The wind was then blowing a fresh gale from the W. and a very heavy cross sea was running. The Life-boat Child of Hale...
Milos
ESCORT FOR GERMAN COASTER IN TOW Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 5.50 on the morning of the 14th February, 1963, the naval base at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that the steering gear of the coaster Milos of Bremen had broken down off...