LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Army's Gratitude for Dunkirk.
The appeal to, the Army, which the Institution makes each year was sent out in August, 1940. The response up to the end of February 1941, is £5562.
That is fourteen times as much as in 1939. The Army is much larger,...
Category: Articles
Stuck In the Sands
One morning last May an army ambulance stuck in the sands at New Brighton, Cheshire, and two other vehicles which went to drag it out also stuck.
The tide was coming in, with" a nasty swell, and the need was so urgent...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Galliot Johanna, of Soon
On the 8th March a vessel was observed running in for the land, and, as it was evident she was em- bayed, there being a heavy sea and strong wind from E.N.E., a steam-tug went out and took her in tow. While crossing the bar the tow-rope...
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1951
THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com-...
Category: Articles
Elizabeth Anne and a Schooner
MOELFBE, ANGLESEY.—On the 12th February a very heavy gale from the S.
by W. was experienced, and a large fleet of steamers and sailing craft took refuge in the bay. The storm increased in fury, and the schooner Elizabeth...
STRANDED IN A CAVE
MINEHEAD | 18 DECEMBER
Minehead lifeboat crew launched at first light after a husband and son reported their wife/mother missing. She had slipped 3m down a cliff near her home in Porlock, Devon, and – unable to climb back up –...
Category: Services
New Ways of Raising Money
RIDLEY HOUSE, Felixstowe College, whose interest in the Life-boat Service is so great that it has formed a Ladies' Life-boat Guild within the House, has staged two competitions for the benefit of the Service. One is a general know- ledge...
Category: Donations
Gracieuse
The weather was so bad on the night of the 6th March that a watch was kept all night and at about 6.30 next morning it was reported that a schooner off the Bull Lighthouse was steering very badly.
She was watched for some...
The Frank
At about midnight on the 8-9th February the district police constable roused the coxswain of the Life-boat Mary Andrew, and reported that a vessel was ashore south of Bondicar and making distress signals. The crew were assembled and the boat...