LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Embla
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of October, 1950, the Tara coastguard reported that a motor yacht trying to cross the Strang- ford Lough was making heavy weather.
At 5.3, as the weather was...
Dido
At 9.16 P.M. on the 9th October the coastguard telephoned that a small motor fishing boat was in difficulties in Yarmouth Roads, about three-quarters of a mile S.E. from Britannia Pier. A moderate and increasing S. gale was blowing, with a...
Killed on Active Service
IN "Obituary of the Years of War, 1939-1945," "in the last issue of The Life-boat, there should have appeared two other names, John Herbert Bolton and Thomas Valentine Bennett.
Mr. Bolton joined the staff of...
Category: Obituaries
Lilida
Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...
Remembering Rohilla
When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
Category: Articles
Scrivens,
"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
Category: Advertisement
Lifeboats In Action
One man's courageA young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...
Category: Services
Hope Crest
ump passed to sinking fishing boat in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Albert Sutherland and the crew of the Fraserburgh lifeboat took over three hours to battle through the 10-12m seas and a full south easterly gale to reach the fishing vessel...
Book Reviews
• A new volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series is always welcome and in The Life-boats of Cardigan Bay and Anglesey (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 32s.) Mr. Henry Parry has maintained the traditions of accuracy and thorough- ness of the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec., 1876
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
Category: Services