LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Years of War
In the first two years of war life-boats have rescued 4058 lives. They have rescued more lives in these two years of war than in the last eleven years of peace.
They have rescued 39 lives each week. They have rescued a life...
Category: Articles
Maid of Erin
On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor,...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...
Our Life-Boat Crews
There's fury in the tempest, and there's madness in the waves; The lightning snake coils round the foam, the headlong thunder raves; Yet a boat is on the waters filled with Britain's daring sons, Who pull like...
Category: Poetry
A Burning Vessel
MARCH 1 7TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
A burning vessel had been seen at night ten miles out at sea, but only burning oil was found. The life-boat was launched with great difficulty at dead low water in a rough sea and the...
A Fishing Vessel
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.40 a.m. on 30th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small fishing vessel had fired red flares from a position half a mile east of the harbour. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at...
Life-Boat Crew at Buckingham Palace
H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...
Category: Medals
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Ceremonies
Portaferry, May 9, 1987 There was a large gathering for the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Portaferry Atlantic 21 lifeboat Blue Peter V. The occasion included the official opening of the new boathouse, made possible...
Category: Inaugurations
An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...