LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elinor and Mary, of Milford
About noon of the 14th of November, during a terrible gale from the N.E., signals of distress were hoisted on board vessels at anchor in Fishguard Koads. The No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perratt, was at once launched; but before she could...
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia (1)
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
Ceremonies
Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
Category: Inaugurations
All In the Day's Work
LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.
Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...
Category: Articles
Amstalkirk and Algorab
NO V . 2 5 T H . - WALMER, KENT. The life-boat went out to the help of the Dutch steamer Amstalkirk in a full south-west gale, with very rough seas and dense rain. She was then told to go to another Dutch steamer, the Algorab, of Rotterdam,...
An Aeroplane and a Naval Drifter
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.30 in the morning a message was received from the police at Bowmore that an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea near the entrance to Loch Killisport, Knapdale. This was confirmed by...
Petasus and St. Barbara
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.55 on the evening of the 6th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen south-east of the coastguard look-out.
At 9.20, when the life-boat Edian...
John Henry York,
John Henry York, Shanklin and District branch Press and Publicity and Collection Organiser. He joined the branch in 1971 and was Box Secretary from 1976 until 1986. Mr York was Press and Publicity and Collection Organiser from 1987,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Susan Ann
Padstow, Cornwall. At 4.32 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties half a mile east-north-east of Trevose Head.
The no. 1 life-boat Joseph...
Old Age and the Life-Boat Service. Helpers of 79, 86, 94, 98 and 102
REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.
There are five more very touching examples of such service.
A Croydon lady 79 years old has...
Category: Articles