LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ballylesson
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.25 a.m.
on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a collision had occurred off Pluckington Bank buoy and that a coaster was sinking. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went out at...
The King and the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 48 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 14th, 1935 - 63,938 The King and the Life-boat Service.
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Category: Articles
Two Schooners and A Brig
Two days later (on the 18th October) two schooners and a brig were observed off the harbour, a " strong gale " from the S.E. blowing, with a "very heavy sea" running. These vessels were the schooner Anne, of Montrose,...
The Life-Boat, Song, and Duet
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is indubitably not a, romance, but one of hard practical fact. The Institution has nought to do with " Dreamland," but its mission is, from our rugged and storm-beaten shores, to...
Category: Songs
Fishing Boats (2)
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
Canoes
Canoes caught out WHILE ON EXERCISE, on Saturday May 15, Beaumaris ILB Blue Peter II learned, at 1350, that a group of 20 canoeists from the Nelson Outdoor Pursuit Centre at Llanfair were out in the Menai Straits opposite Moel-y-Don and had...
A Raft
FEBRUARY 1 3TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE. At 10.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an object had been seen in the sea one and a half miles to the north-west. The sea was rough, with a heavy ground swell. A moderate...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeremiah O'Connell, of Valentia, Co. Kerry,He has been coxswain since 1946..
Category: Articles
Speedwell
New Brighton, Cheshire. — On the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Speedwell, with the life-boat's second coxswain and a life- boatman on board, had gone out.
On the following morning, as she had not...
Therese
YACHT ESCORTED UP RIVER New Brighton, Cheshire. At 11.40 on the morning of the 22nd June, 1963, a message was received that a yacht needed help north of Rock lighthouse, and ten minutes later the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at...