LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Wicklow Head, of Belfast
FEBRUARY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At six in the evening the harbour master reported to the life-boat station a wireless message from the S.S. Wicklow Head, of Belfast, that she was making for Torbay to land a badly injured man. A local shipping...
A Hundred Years Ago
ON January 5th, 1847, Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., the founder of the Life-boat Service, died in the Isle of Man at the age of seventy-eight. He was not only the founder of the service, but one of the greatest of its life-boatmen,...
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Hero squad
CBBC’s new TV show Hero Squad is essential viewing for children who dream of going to the rescue one day. Three of the episodes focus on what it’s like to be an RNLI lifesaver.
A group of 12–14-year-olds came to RNLI...
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A Steamer (8)
JANUARY 30TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
A steamer had been bombed and sunk by enemy aircraft, five miles from Muckle Skerry, and one of the ship’s boats with sixteen men on board had been seen off Grimness, South Ronaldshay. The...
Staniel
Aldeburgh, and Lowestoft, Suffolk.
At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the Lowestoft honorary secretary that the motor vessel Staniel of Cardiff, which was making for Lowestoft...
Bluebell
At 3.55 A.M. on the 15th February signals of distress were heard from a steamer about half a mile to the west of Port Eynon Point. The crew of the Life- boat Janet were promptly summoned and the boat launched. The weather was hazy, and it...
Sybilla, of Castlebay (1)
AUGUST 29TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
During the late evening of the 28th of August the relatives of the crew of four of the motor fishing boat Sybilla, of Castlebay, became anxious, as the boat was overdue from lobster...
The Schoolboys' Own Exhibition
THE Institution took a small stall at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held during the first week of January. On the opening day it also had the use of a stall called King Arthur's Table, which was given, without charge, to a...
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William and Sarah Ann
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 1 A.M.
on the 25th July, the side lights of a vessel were observed near the Barber Sand and it appeared that she was in great danger of stranding, and shortly afterwards flares were seen from the...
Obituary
With deep regret It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.
Cdr Swann first joined the...
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