LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lily Dale
ST. DAVID'S. —While a gale from W.S.W. was blowing and a very high sea was running, on the 24th March, signals were fired by the South Bishop Lighthouse. At 5 P.M. the Life-boat Gem was launched, made for St. David's Head, and found...
June (1)
JUNE MEETING HAROLDSWICK, UNST, SHETLANDS. At 7.40 A.M. on the 15th April, 1940. the subpostmaster at Haroldswick reported to the coastguard that a small ship’s boat, with men on board, had been seen in Haroldswick Bay about a mile from the...
Category: Services
None (3)
Three days later, on Wednesday July 30, a message came to the honorary secretary from the Coastguard at 1400 that a bather was in difficulties off Cowden, eight miles to the north. The D class inflatable lifeboat was launched by 1413, manned...
Healthspan
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Category: Advertisement
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands,...
Category: Poetry
'Send help'
When holidaymakers got trapped between cliffs and 2m waves with no way of calling the Coastguard, could anyone help them escape?
‘This was another idyllic sunny day so we headed out for a...
Category: Articles
Dorothea
At 4.30 A.M. on the 21st February the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched, signals having been fired by the Swin Middle, Light-vessel. The morning was bitterly cold; a very strong wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was very rough....
Fishing Boats
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 23rd January the Newbiggin fishing-boats went to the fishing-ground at 4 A.M. A severe gale from the S.E. sprung up in the forenoon, and at 12.15 it became necessary to launch the Life-boat William,...
Meet Lifeboat Larry
Meet Lifeboat Larry—or at least one of him. - View image in PDF
Mr Jewers of Winterbourne Down, Bristol, makes rocking horses like this for voting children and to dale has bv selling them made a remarkable £500 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Atonality
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.52 on the night of the 2nd of March, 1954, the Rame Head coastguard rang up to say that the Fowey life-boat motor mechanic had intercepted a wireless message from the tanker Atonality, of London. This stated that the...