LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Since 1972, the Crystal Vaudeville Company, made up of local amateurs, has put on three successful seasons of Old Tyme Music Hall shows in Aberystwyth. All proceeds go to charity, and in 1974, for the second time, a donation was made to the...
Category: Donations
William Thomas, Belfast and Bloomers, of Thurso
The schooners William Thomson, of Dumfries, and Blossom, of Thurso, were in distress during a W.N.W.
gale in Scrabster Roads on the 13th Feb- ruary. The Polly life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore the crews,...
Alderman J. G. Oldfield, J.P., of Whitehaven
ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pensions
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: THOMAS CBOWLEY, 31J years coxswain and If years second coxswain of the Fenit life-boat.
WILLIAM LINKLATEB, 8 years coxswain and 9J years bowman...
Category: Awards
Two Tragedies of Collecting Boxes
BOTH tragedies occurred in Hertford- shire. The first was on life-boat day in St. Albans. A little girl had been sent out by her mother to do some shopping. She had a florin ready in her hand. At the corner of the road she met a life-boat...
Category: Donations
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN YVES SYLVESTRE HERVE, of the Criccieth life-boat Robert Lindsay. Born in Brittany, Coxswain Herve, who served in the French merchant navy from 1935 to 1941 and then in the Free French commandos, joined the Criccieth life-boat in...
Category: Articles
Greyhound, of Liverpool
JULY 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At six in the morning information was received from the Dock Board that a fishing boat was ashore on the revetment opposite Gamma Buoy, with spray going over her. A fresh westerly breeze...
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...
Category: Services
Stranded on rocks
10 April: Ilfracombe, Devon A teenage girl stranded on rocks and cut off by a rising sea was rescued by Ilfracombe lifeboat. The 13-year-old became stuck near Lee Bay while walking with friends. Ilfracombe’s...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Smack
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. — 2nd May. A motor vessel stranded on Caister Shoal and a fishing smack on the North Barber Sands, but both vessels got off without help.—Rewards, Caister £22 3s. ; Great Yarmouth and...