LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Year of Endeavour
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
Category: Donations
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
Six Penny Stamps
FOUB years ago a lady living at Wylde Green, near Birmingham, asked the Prince of Wales to give her six penny stamps as capital to start a business on behalf of the Life-boat Service. The Prince sent the stamps, and a flourishing business,...
Category: Articles
Maartje, of Rotterdam (1)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford; and Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 14th July, 1961,pilots at Dunmore East reported that the coaster Maartje of Rotterdam needed help ten miles south-west of Hook Town, as her engines...
Elephants and beer goggles
Trying to persuade teenagers that water safety is cool isn’t easy but 20-year-old volunteer Tery Connor has it sussed …
‘I have a passion for working with young people and considerable...
Category: Articles
Naiad, of Colchester
On the night of the 30th December, signals of distress were seen burning from a vessel off this place.
The wind was blowing fresh from the East, and a heavy sea running. The Parsee life- boat put off and assisted, after ten...
Haleswell
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 8th October, the schooner Haleswell, of Bridgwater, went ashore outside the Harry Furlongs Bocks, daring a fog. She was observed at 7 A.M., and a boat came ashore from her with two of her crew to ask for the...
Jonah
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were observed at midnight on the 8th May, from a vessel which had stranded on the Dogger Bank. The wind was blowing from the E.N.E. at the time, and the sea was rough. The Ethel JEveleen Life-boat promptly...
Catherine
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK.— At1 A.M. on the 3rd May, during a strong gale from the N.E. with a heavy sea, a vessel was observed on shore at Waxham, showing signals of distress. With all possible speed the Life-boat Parses was at once taken...
Jessie and Mary
AEBEOATH, FOBFARSHIEE.—On the 15th January the fishing-boat Jessie and Mary, of Arbroath, was observed, about two miles distant from the shore, making for the harbour, and as the sea was heavy it was evident that she would encounter...