LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Norman Clark Neill
Mr. Norman Clark Neill, who died in March, at the age of fifty-two, was appointed a member of the committee of management in November, 1933, and served on the boat committee and construction committee. He brought to the work of the...
Category: Obituaries
Canoes
Walmer, Kent. At 3.18 on the after- noon of the 20th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that he had seen from the cliff-top at St. Margaret's two canoeists capsize about a mile off shore in choppy...
A Merchant Ship
JUNE 7TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL.
A merchant ship had been reported mined and torpedoed and sinking rapidly, but other vessels had gone to her help and the life-boat found that she was not needed.
While...
Mark Lisa
WORKINGTON, Sunday January 6, 1985: a 33ft fishing vessel, Mark Lisa, with two men aboard, on passage between Fleetwood and Tarbert on the Clyde, suffered engine failure and drifted on to rocks at St Bees Head. She then floated off, leaking...
Isle of Man. Douglas. Concert and Thanksgiving Service
Concert and Thanksgiving Service.
The Centenary Celebrations in Douglas were held on Saturday and Sunday, May 22nd and 23rd, the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., going to Douglas specially...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Five Boys and a Girl
MR. MICHAEL WILSON, a second officer on leave from the Merchant Navy, who went out as a member of the Tenby life-boat crew, has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of five boys and a girl on 27th...
Category: Services
Speedwell
On receipt of a message on the morning of the 1st July, stating that a yacht was aground on the West Hoyle Bank, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 11.45, and on reaching the vessel found she was the Speedwell, cutter-rigged, of...
Sir Charles Macara, Bt., of Manchester
SIR Charles Macara, Bt., of Manchester, for many years one of the most prominent figures in the cotton industry, who died on 2nd January last, nine days before his eighty-fourth birthday, will always be honourably and gratefully remembered...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Boat
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.30 A.M.
on the 22nd June the coastguard reported that four visitors, two men and two women, had put out in a motor boat during the previous afternoon and had not returned. A light breeze was...
Devonshire of Liverpool
On the 27th November signals of distress were observed between 3 and 4 miles distant from this place. The crew of the Llanddwyn life-boat were at once assembled, and the boat went off and found the vessel riding with two anchors down. She...