LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dulcet Bella and Troglodyte
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with three boys aboard was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Glasgow, on temporary...
Your shout
My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire, on Tuesday 17 July.
We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calen- dar for next year. It is also issuing, for the first time, a Life-boat Christmas card, and we hope that readers of The Lifeboat will buy this calendar for their...
Category: Advertisement
Port Talbot
Crew Member Ron Jones, (c), of Port Talbot completed the Afan half marathon recently and thanks to the support of his friends collected £93 in sponsorship. Receiving the cheque is his station honorary secretary, David Aubrey, with (I)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
No.3
During a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March tho steam hopper No. 3, of Liverpool, was observed to be in difficulties, and the Life-boat John and Henrietta was launched and went to her. The hopper had lost her rudder and was drifting...
Harwich
Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....
A Schoolboy's Help.
THE honorary secretary of the Women's Auxiliary at Folkestone has had from a public schoolboy a gift, in the form of personal service, of the value of £6 14s. 3d. In the course of three holidays he has saved her that sum in...
Category: Donations
Beowulf
The RNLI has been asking some of those who have been on the receiving end of a lifeboat service to complete a questionnaire giving the details as seen from their viewpoint.
The scheme is completely voluntary, but a large...
Atlantic evolution
For years, students and teachers at Atlantic College have volunteered for a lifeboat crew ready to launch off the south Wales coast. But now the College has a new lifesaving focus. While the lifeboat station has now closed, students have...
Category: Articles
Osprey
Rhyl, Flintshire. —At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1949, the owner of the local fishing vessel Osprey, reported that she was aground in the surf half a mile north of the entrance to Foryd Harbour. It could be seen that she had...