LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capri
— At mid- night on the 21st September a tele- phone message was received that a vessel appeared to be trying to attract attention by means of a flare. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. It was first tried,...
Three Brothers, Shamrock, Spray, Yorkshire Lass, Friends
.—A gale sprang up on the morning of the 26th November, from the S.S.W., and later backed to the southward, and increased in force. Two small cobles were seen making for the harbour, and a larger coble went off and assisted them into safety....
Gifts from Crews
ON the 4th February, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat helped to save the steam trawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue her crew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given the Institution...
Category: Donations
James Postelthwaite
— The schooner James PostletJiwaite, of Barrow, whilst bound for Burton Port in ballast, stranded on the north side of Eighter Island, on the 15th June. Information reached Aranmore by telegram about 2.15P.M., and the Life-boat, La Totitam,...
A Dinghy
Saved from drowning A 71-YEAR-OLD MAN was out fishing alone in his 9ft wooden dinghy on the afternoon of Monday September 9, 1985.
The weather was fair, there was a moderate south-south-westerly breeze, force 4, with a...
Little Ouse
The following account of a service carried out by the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat on the 26th of March, 1960, was received too late for inclusion in the June 1960 number of the Life-boat : At 5.5 in the afternoon, the coast- guard informed...
Nimrod
TWO LIFE-BOATS STAND BY DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Padstow, Cornwall, and Appledore, Devon. At 8.47 on the morning of the 15th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the Padstow honorary secretary that the motor vessel Nimrod of Groningen had been...
Isbjorn
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10 A.M. a message was received from the Kilchoman coast-guard that a vessel was ashore on the east side of Mull of Oa, and at 10.30 A.M the reserve motor life-boat Duke of Connaught, on temporary...
Horses Pull a Fully Manned Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat Through the Streets During An Early Lifeboat Saturday Parade the Exact Location Is Unknown
Horses pull a fully manned pulling and sailing lifeboat through the streets during an early Lifeboat Saturday parade. The exact location is unknown.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spirit
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles