LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gladys
At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she had taken the...
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Life-boat Rescue from the Land.
THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Lifeboat Station was situated at the end...
Special Gifts
From the Sale of Lavender.
IT has already been mentioned in The Life-boat that last year money was made for Branches by the sale of flowers at the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton Life-boathouse, and also at Appledore. The...
Category: Donations
Tyrwhitt
— Early on the morning of the 17th March the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station tele- phoned that a vessel was apparently in distress near Fast Castle Point, about four miles up the coast. Her siren could be heard, but owing to the dense...
Bedridden Girl's Life-Boat Bazaars
A FRAMED picture of a Life-boat going out to a vessel in distress has been presented to Miss Ruby Snow, of Bideford, in gratitude for her work for the Life-boat Service. Although Miss Snow, who is seventeen years old, has been bedridden for...
Category: Articles
Out on a shout
What do you understand by the term ‘shout’ in lifeboating? Is it simply the launch or the entire rescue mission? Is it derived literally from the call to action and who used it first – volunteeers or the mass media? Searching the newly...
Category: Articles
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Washed off pier THE DUTY WATCHKEEPER On RanlSgate East Pier was told at 0305 on Saturday November 29, 1980, that an angler had been washed off the pier by a heavy sea. The Trinity House 40ft pilot launch Versatile was at that time off duty...
Wading into Danger
In the early hours of the morning, a man clung on for dear life, shivering in the near-freezing, fast-flowing river. Would rescuers be able to reach him in time? Rory Stamp reports
It was 10 January 2009 and a man was seen...
Category: Articles
Girl Anne and Maureen
Girvan, Ayrshire. About one o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st of Novem- ber, 1951, when a gale was blowing, a message was heard on a fishing boat'swireless set in the harbour at Girvan that several fishing boats had left Whiting...
Celtic
Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 14th October, 1939, a sailing barge was seen dragging her anchor off Margate Jetty. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was decided to send out the motor lifeboat Lord Southborough...