LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel
A telephone message had in the meantime been sent to Whitelink Bay, notifying a vessel in distress, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat stationed at that place at once launched the Three Brothers and proceeded to the scene of the accident. She...
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PATIENT TO KIRKWALL The honorary secretary was notified at 2.20 a.m. on 4th June, 1965, that a patient on North Ronaldsay required urgent hospital treatment at Kirkwall for appendicitis. As there was no other suitable boat available the life...
Then And Now
tHen AnD nOw Capital gains In 1927, London ‘life-boat’ day was a huge operation, supported by the Lord Mayor of London and many of the borough mayors. Four thousand collectors, mainly women, worked from 150 temporary...
Category: Articles
Mr. Punch In 1883. Ready! A Business-Like Ballad
My Lads, lend ear! There's a yarn to spin on an old but honest text.
When round our cliffs and our headlands hoar our winter seas are vext, When the waves are lashed by the wind- flouts wild that come with the condor...
Category: Poetry
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Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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Kristina Thorden
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 24th of November, 1956, a message was received from the Swedish motor vessel Kristina Thorden that she had a very sick man on board.
She asked the life-boat to meet her at...
A Hundred Threepenny Bits
A POLICEMAN on point-duty in Brid- lington, Yorkshire, one day last June, had an envelope thrust into his hand by a woman, who said : " That is for the life-boat. I have saved it up." She then ran away. When the envelope was...
Category: Donations
A Wireless Appeal
ON Christmas Eve of last year a wireless appeal for the Life-boat Service was made by the Duke of Montrose. chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, a vice-president of the Institution and now the Institution's...
Category: Donations
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YOUNG PAIR RESCUE BOYS AT ABOUT 5.30 p.m. on 29th May, 1972, three young children were playing on the outer pier of North Sunderland harbour. The wind was westerly force 4-5 with a long heavy swell coming in from a north-easterly direction....
Coxswain George Taylor, of Hauxley, Northumberland
George Taylor, who, since 1909, had been Coxswain of the Life-boat at Hauxley, Northumberland, was drowned while fishing on llth November of last year. During his Coxswainship the Hauxley Life-boat rescued 62 lives, and he was specially...
Category: Obituaries