LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little Aggie, of Berwick
On the 21st December, during a heavy gale from N.N.E., the schooner Little Aggie, of Ber- wick, with a cargo of slates, got on shore at Hauxley. The life-boat stationed there was immediately transported to the scene of the wreck, and with...
Fishing Boats (2)
On the 21st February a heavy sea sprung up while fishing-boats were out, and timely assistance was rendered to them by the Life-boats Ephraim and Hannah Fox, stationed at Robin Hood's Bay; the Co-operator No. 1, of Cullercoats; and the...
Clipper aground
The 100-year-old Dutch clipper De Tukker ran aground on a sandbank at the entrance to Amble Harbour, after a tide miscalculation. Amble’s D class Mildred Holcroft crew passed a tow rope from the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday " Season" for 1904 is now almost over, and having regard to the wave of commercial de- pression which has been sweeping the country, it has been a decidedly success- ful one. When times are bad it needs all...
Category: Articles
Wimbrell
At 11.5 p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard stated that the police had reported that four flares had been seen south of Black Rock, Brighton. The lifeboat Kathleen Mary was launched at 11.15 in a light variable wind and a smooth sea....
An Evening By the Sea
IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is smiling down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea; Listen!—the Mighty Being is awake, And doth with...
Category: Poetry
Flag It Up
Pictured (I tor) are lifeboat supporter Fran Topping and her nephews, Stefan Gibson (Chesterfield branch), Tony Sawyer (St Helens branch chairman) and Tony Mathias (area organiser, north west region). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fatal Accident In Boarding Boat
Second Mechanic F. K. Neilson of New Brighton, lost his life on the 6th March, 1962, when he fell overboard from the New Brighton boarding boat.
The honorary secretary of the New Brighton station had issued instructions...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat Stamp Bureau
THE Life-boat Stamp Bureau, which was founded by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, in 1933, is continuing and ex- tending its work. Miss Power has now a number of regular customers who want only first-class...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Dinghy adrift off Inchcolm AT 1644 on the afternoon of December 8, 1974, Queensferry honorary treasurer, who was deputising for the honorary secretary, was informed by the Coastguard that a man was in difficulty in a small dinghy off...