LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Edinburgh Merchant Seamen
WE notice with pleasure that growing interest by public men in the concerns of the seamen of the country, which is always one of the signs indicative of the importance of any particular matter be-ginning to be realised by the nation at large...
Category: Articles
Countess, of Lisburne
On the 13th December the smack Countess of Zdsburne, of Aberystwyth, laden with limestone, was observed in a dangerous position on Car- digan Bar, in a heavy ground swell. The life-boat was immediately launched, and, proceeding through the...
Jules Josephine, of Reyneville
On the 22nd August, the French smack Jules Josephine, of Reyneville, was totally wrecked on the Doom Bar Sands. It was blowing a heavy gale from W.N.W. at the time. The City of Bristol life-boat, Albert Edward, so named after H.K.H. the...
A Fishing Coble
CULLERCOATS.—On the 10th January the Palmerston Life-boat put off to the aid of a fishing-coble which had been caught in a very high sea, rendering it dangerous for her to cross the bar. With the assistance of the Life-boat the coble safely...
Mr T Downing
Mr T. Downing MBE, honorary secretary of Barrow Station Branch since 1949, being the assistant honorary secretary and treasurer from 1946-1949. He was awarded a pair of binoculars in 1960, a gold badge in 1975 and a bar to the gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries
Tasty Cake
Mr Grant Hodgkinson of Grant's Sandwich Bar in Holmes Chapel presented the local committee with a cake designed in the shape of a lifeboat, which was to be first prize in the Christmas raffle.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat Mbe Jp Dl
August 1998 Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat MBE JP DL Longhope president and exhonorary secretary. Jackie was appointed secretary in 1962 a position he was to hold for 33 years. He was awarded the the MBE in 1985, the Gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries
Dooker Dosh
The 'Loony dockers', regulars from The Moorings lounge bar in South Queensferry who braved the icy waters of the Firth on New Year's Day, raised £2,300 for local charities as a result of their madcap escapade.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Malabar 13
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.25 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a member of the local life-boat committee telephoned that a yacht taking part in the Fastnet Race had been dismasted west of the North East Shingles Buoy. She was...
Integrity
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.38 on the night of the 22nd of November, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore on the south side of the harbour. The boat was burning red flares, and at 9.48 the life-boat Edzcard...