LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fund Raisers
Coffee mates Pupils from Derwentwater Infants School, all aged between five and six years old, ran a parents' coffee morning last November, baking cakes and serving their guests themselves. Parents jumped at the chance to be served by...
Category: Articles
Julia, of Liverpool
On the night of the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind from S. to S.S.E., the barque Julia, of Liverpool, struck on the Brig Hill Bank, in Dundalk Bay. At daylight her signals of distress were seen from the shore, and the Dundalk...
Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
Category: Articles
Mrs Lilian Platts
Mrs Lilian Platts who joined the Bristol Ladies Lifeboat Guild in 1942 and was its treasurer from 1956 to 1977.
She was awarded a silver badge in 1967 and a gold badge in 1976..
Category: Obituaries
Below: Coastguard Helicopter, India Juliet,
Below: Coastguard helicopter, India Juliet, prepares to put a man aboard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne
Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne speaks to members of Southend-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 crew (from left to right, John Foster, David Goodbourn and Paul Henshaw), watched by station honorary secretary Colin Sedgewick (extreme right).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Haul-Off Warps
THE term "Haul-off warp" is used to describe the rope which is made fast to an anchor laid out to sea opposite the launching place of the Life-boat, and with- out the he'p of this appliance there are many stations where the aid...
Category: Articles
Inis Caol
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1955, a man at Kinsale telephoned to say that the motor fishing boat Inis Caol, of Dublin, had left for the fishing grounds the previous day, with a crew of four, but had...
The S.S. Vulcan
At 9. A.M. on the 25th March during a strong W.
gale, with very heavy sea, a vessel was observed in difficulties about two miles from the middle Hasborough Sands, and soon after she was blown within half a mile of the sands...
Fine Gael
JULY 10TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At midnight on the 9th July one of the life-boatmen reported to the coxswain that the small boat Fine Gael had notreturned. She had been taken out at about seven in the evening by three...