LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Suggestion. To Those In Charge of the Young
CHARACTER never alters, but it may be influenced, instructed and guided, and never so well as in the days of child- hood and early youth. Whilst it is of the utmost importance that the young should be encouraged to be industrious, thrifty...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy and a Yacht
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...
Ocean
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The Albert Edward Life-boat put off at about 7.30 P.M. on the 14th October, in reply to signals of distress, during a very strong N.W. wind and very rough sea. After cruising about for some time the schooner Ocean, of Goole,...
The St. Augustine, of Helvick
MARCH 31ST. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. A fishing boat, which had been under repair at Dungarvan, left about 7.30 in the evening, with two men on board, to return to Helvick. As she was passing out of Dungarvan harbour...
NEW DISTRICT
A new organisational district of the R.N.L.I.
is now working from Salisbury, Wiltshire. This is known as the Southern District and the District Organising Secretary is Mr. A. K.
Oliver at 29a Castle Street...
Category: Committee
‘ YOU NEVER THINK IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOU’
Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly
Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...
Category: Articles
Alpheus Marshall
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.
— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...
Hannah Taylor
At 11 A.M on the 27th March the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 1 received a report stating that a fishing coble had had her rudder broken about one mile south of the harbour. It was blowing a whole gale from the West at the time...
St. Minver
Padstow, Cornwall. At 6.46 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1958, a message was received by the honorary secretary that calls for help had been heard coming from a boat off Pentine Head. At 7.5 the no. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick...
A Yacht
Porthdlnllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties off Caernarvon bar. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 6.35 at low water....