LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Linnet
While the fishing dandy Linnet, of Lowestoft, was riding in the bay on the 28th September, a strong gale from the N.N.W. sprung up accompanied by a heavy sea, causing the vessel to drift slowly towards the shore. At midnight a flare-light...
Miss Alice J. Phillips, Tunbridge Wells
Miss Alice J. Phillips, who died on 5th February last, had been honorary secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch for nearly thirty years, first under the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and since the organization of the Fund was taken over by the...
Category: Obituaries
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Extended lifeguard season saves the dayBeach lifeguards at Perranporth were surprised to see a horse and rider galloping up to them on the afternoon of 26 October 2003 Two horse riders had been enjoying a sunny autumn day on Perran Sands...
Exeter Friendly
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Category: Advertisement
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 4.7 in the after- noon, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a report received from a holiday camp at Towyn that three men and boys in a rubber dinghy needed help off the camp. At 4.30 the life-boat...
Reviews
The Missions to Seamen.
" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...
Category: Articles
Welcome Home
The schooner Welcome Home, of Plymouth, was observed about 7 A.M. on the 19th November running for Hayle in an E.N.E. gale, and when attempting to cross the bar she stranded. The assembly signal for the Life-boat crew was at once fired, and...
‘ I THOUGHT IT WAS MY LAST BREATH’
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers—1958 and 1959
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
Standing By All Night In Gale
AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed Coxswain Hugh Jones of Beaumaris that the Greek tanker Essar I was drifting with engine trouble and with her engine room flooded one mile north of Point Lynas....
Category: Services