LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Devonia
Shortly before 3 A.M. on the 28th January a message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a steamer was ashore between Bull Point and Morthoe.
The Life-boat Co-operator No. 2 was ; very smartly launched, the...
Queen of Hearts
KILDONAN, ISLE OF ARRAN.—On the 11th February, at 10.30 A.M., the Life-boat Hope proceeded, in tow of the tug steamer Flying Sprite, to the assistance of a ship reported on shore on the Sliddery Rock, at the south end of the island. It was...
That's Life
Many years ago there was the-launching of the Mumbles/hearse Before the boathouse and slipway were built, the RNLI owned two horses to haul the Mumbles boat on a carriage over the wide mud flats into the water. One day the local undertaker...
Category: Articles
A Little-Known Work By Sir William Hillary. Plan for a Steam Life-Boat
No doubt most readers of The Lifeboat possess a copy of Britain's Life-boats, by Major A. J. Dawson. They will find in Appendix A in that book a list of the works of Sir William Hillary, whose Appeal to the British Nation, published in...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
Category: Services
Coxswain Joseph Parkinson
Coxswain Joseph Parkinson, of Lytham died on the 17th of March, 1959, at the age of 60. He was appointed coxswain in 1947 after serving as assistant motor mechanic of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat from 1931.
He was...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain L. C. Pennycord
Coxswain L. C. Pennycord of Selsey died in May 1960 at the age of 69. He served as second coxswain from 1932 to 1936 and was coxswain from 1936 to 1952. During his last year of service he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Obituaries
M.B.E. for Scottish Honorary Secretary.
In the Birthday Honours Mr. George Norrie Craighead was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work as honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. He is now serving in the R.A.F., and his wife...
Category: Articles
Ensimainen
PALLING.—On the 29th December, at 2 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded to the North Float light-ship, in reply to guns fired from that vessel.
On arrival it was found that the master and his wife, and the crew of...
Wallace J. John
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 6th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a very heavy sea and proceeded to the North Scroby Sand where the barque Wallace J. John, of Gluckstadt, had been totally...