LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Warriors
I AM sitting right, opposite to it. The dark red doors of the stone, chapel-like j little building are wide open. The sun is shining, and the sea is calui. Over the doors in large white letters on a blue background is written "...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Olavus
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 26th January the coastguard reported that rockets had been seen by the Lynn Wells lightship from a steamer aground on the Dog's Head Sands. She was the s.s. Olavus, of Hull, bound in ballast...
Book Reviews
Mr. Angus MacVicar has produced a work which many people associated with the life-boat service must long have wanted to find, a gripping novel written for the young on the work of a life-boat station. This is Life-boat— Green to White...
Category: Articles
The Morecambe Bay Lightvessel
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.17 on the morning of the 14th of May, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that the Morecambe Bay light- vessel had asked for the life-boat as a member of her crew was seriously ill.
At...
The White Rose
WHITE FLAG FLYING Sheringham, Norfolk. At 11.10 a.m.
on ist September, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew reported that a crab boat was flying a white flag off Weybourne, apparently hi difficulties. There was a moderate...
The Bar Lightvessel
DEAD MAN REMOVED FROM LIGHTVESSEL New Brighton, Cheshire. At approximately 9.35 on the morning of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Marine Department of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board informed the honorary secretary that a member of...
Four Members of the Committee of Management
THE EARL OF HOME LIEUT.-COL. THE EARL OF HOME died on the llth of July, 1951, at the age of 77. He had been a vice-president of the Institution since 1923. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Life-boat"...
Category: Obituaries
Mercurius H.
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.30 on the morning of the 26th of November, 1957, a member of the life-boat crew reported that a vessel was ashore a mile and a half west of the life-boat station.
The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...
The Ship's Boat Volga
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.20 on the night of the 23rd of April, 1959, a stageman told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat was adrift off New Brighton with two young men and two girls on board. At 10.32 the life-boat...
The Annual Harvest Festival Service Was Held at Glynne Arms Hotel Hawarden on October 4 Mr Jakeman Licensee Welcomed Everyone and Especially the Very Reveren
The annual harvest festival service was held at Glynne Arms Hotel, Hawarden, on October 4. Mr Jakeman, licensee, welcomed everyone and especially the Very Reverend Spencer Ellis, retired Dean of St Asaph, who conducted the service, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs