LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heroes All
THE following verses were written by Beryl James, of Liskeard, Cornwall, after seeing a Life-boat film. She was fifteen years old at the time, and was one of the prize-winners in the Life-boat Essay Competition last...
Category: Poetry
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Aith, Shetland. — At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 14th of January, 1955, the County Medical Officer of Health rang up to say that a surgeon and a sister from a hospital in Lerwick, who had been sent to Tangwick to attend a woman with...
When the Rnli Says Its Tractors Are Waterproof - They're Waterproof! a Bigland Tallus Tractor Demonstrates Its Amphibious Qualities During Trials at Sherringham
When the RNLI says its tractors are waterproof - they're waterproof! A Bigland Tallus tractor demonstrates its amphibious qualities during trials at Sherringham.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Kilda
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 2.10 on the morning of the 25th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about ten miles from St. Anne's Head.
A light south-west wind was...
Hester
On. the 1st January the Life-boat Sisters' Memorial succeeded in saving the crew of the flat Hester, of Conway, bound from that place to Bun- corn. The Life-boat was afloat on this service from half-past two in the afternoon to nine...
Reaper
Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...
Pasteur
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—It having been reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress about a mile and a quarter 8.
of the Life-boat Station on the 28th March during half a gale of wind fromthe S.S.W., a heavy sea,...
Isa
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the night of the 21st December, during a thick fog, the schooner Isa, of Inverness, bound from Charlestown for Euncorn with a cargo of china clay, struck on the Dolas Bocks and became a total wreck. On the following...
(Left) the Fishing Vessel Fidelity Lies Awash With Buckie's Arun Class Lifeboat Charles Brown Visible Behind Her
(Left) The fishing vessel Fidelity lies awash with Buckie's Arun class lifeboat Charles Brown visible behind her. - View image in PDF
Photo Tom Sankey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wales Community News
Pendine
3-PEAK SUMMIT FOR THE RNLI
In June, Shelley Phillips from Pendine raised an impressive £445 completing the National Three Peaks Challenge for the RNLI. The challenge calls for mountaineers...
Category: Articles