LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue Call
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
Football
THE annual match for the " Baring Cup" was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co.
Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The...
Category: Articles
February (1)
DOWNINGS, CO. DONEGAL. While out fishing off Innisboffin Island on the 27th of November, 1942, the motor fishing boat Star of Hope, of Downings, foundered and sank while her herring nets were being hauled, and a fresh north-west breeze was...
Category: Services
Honley and Brockholes Guild
Ready for action; the ladies of Honley and Brockholes guild raised £460 during their coffee day and sale of Christmas goods at the home of Mrs Margaret Haffenden. They find ever increasing interest and support from the public in their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
For Weston-Super-Mare Station Branch Last August 21
FOR WESTON-SUPER-MARE station branch last August 21 was a day of double celebration because 1982 was its centenary year and also a new D class inflatable lifeboat, donated by Farnham branch, had come on station. So, at 7.30 that Saturday... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Keel Life-Lines
AN expedient has been suggested by Lieut. E. G. BUTLER, E.N., to enable persons upset in a boat to hold on by her until succour reaches them. As it appears to be one of those simple and inexpensive plans which might be universally adopted...
Category: Articles
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FEBRUARY 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A request for the help of the life-boat was received from a.
medical officer at Pennan. He had a woman patient whom he wanted to send at once to the Fraserburgh hospital, but she...
Delce
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.26 in the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1952, the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched on exercise in a rough sea with a moderate north-north-west breeze blowing. At three o'clock she was four miles...
Coxswain Samuel Cunningham
Coxswain Samuel Cunningham, who died at his home at the age of 54 on 3rd June, 1964, had a dual role which was unique in Ulster. He was former coxswain of the Portrush life-boat and was also town clerk of Portrush.
He was...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Cobles (1)
A fishing coble having been disabled by a sudden squall on the morning of the 25th June, when about three-quarters of a mile from the shore, a pilot coble which was near at hand proceeded to her and renderedassistance. A moderate gale was...