LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
Relief fleet - D ciass City of Peterborough A new D class lifeboat funded by money raised from a special appeal in the Peterborough area, and organised by the local Peterborough branch, was officially handed over and dedicated in a ceremony...
Category: Inaugurations
Jane Ann
On the 14th May, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were shown from a vessel in Carnarvon Bay, apparently at a distance of seven or eight miles from Porthdinllaen. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was...
Rait Castle
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 27th of November, 1948, the harbour master reported a telephone message from the Post Office at Barmston that a vessel was ashore, and the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was...
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Galway Bay. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary for the use of the life-boat to convey him to Inishere to attend a patient believed to have appendicitis. At 6.30 the...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Dungeness, Kent. At 7.10 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Dymchurch. Ten minutes later the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate...
Whiffle
SPEED-BOAT TOWED At 2 p.m. on i6th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Whiffle was in danger of being swamped one mile and a half south-east of Lulworth hi a fresh to strong west-south-westerly wind...
A Lancaster Aeroplane
JULY 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 4.40 in the morning, a message was received from the coastguard that it was thought that a Lancaster aeroplane was down in the sea about six miles from Anderby Creek. A light...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE summer is now over, and the collecting season of the Life - boat Saturday Fund for the current year is therefore practically at an end.
Much has been attempted by the thousands of workers in England, Scotland, and...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Song
SING Ho! ho 1 ho! how the wild winds blow, And the breakers in fury foam, While, with thund'ring roar, o'er the storm-swept shore, The waves in their frenzy roam! Oh, many a ship, in the storm-fiend's grip, Would add to the...
Category: Songs
Frederick Carel (1)
RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.
At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...