LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Victory
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the signal station reported that red and white flares had been seen about one mile south of the pier heads. The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal left her moorings at...
Mandala
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 1.5 a.m. on 20th December, 1968, it was learnt that the coaster Eden Fisher had sighted red flares to the west of Strumble Head. At 1.30 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched.
There was a...
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Girvan, Ayrshire - At 11.30 p.m. on 14th December, 1966, the lighthouse keeper on Pladda was reported to be ill.
The life-boat was asked to convey him to hospital. The life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10) slipped her...
Galaxy
"RADIO LONDON" CAPTAIN ILL At 9.55 a.m. on 20th August, 1965,11 was learnt that a message had been received from the Harwich agents of the M.V.
Galaxy, the transmitting station known as Radio London, saying the...
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 AWARDS FOR "CALCULATED COURAGE" 5 RESCUE DURING CONVALESCENCE 6 MEDAL FOR RESCUE FROM FISHING VESSEL . . . . . . . . . . J RESCUE OF MAN CUT OFF BY TIDE 9 ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY AWARD 9...
Category: Articles
The Irish Ship River Avoca
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach...
Picturesque Postcard
Readers may be interested in this postcard photograph of Douglas lifeboat. It is one of several that came into the possession of my wife, Manx by birth, from her immediate family.
Although the lifeboat pictures are not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Roxby
Nov. 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.35 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that signals for a doctor had been made by the S.S. Roxby, of West Hartlepool, anchored in the Downs. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1930.
£ ' s. d.
44 6 0 •- —— —— —- —•— — Subscriptions, Donations, and Life-boat Days.
37 6 0...
Category: Accounts
Seventy Pounds from the "Sea Microcosm."
IN The Lifeboat for June, 1929, it was announced that Dorothy Una Ratcliffe- Brotherton, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., of Leeds, had very kindly decided to devote the gross profits of the current number of her literary and artistic magazine, The...
Category: Donations