LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...
Category: Advertisement
Fishing Boats (1)
The fishing-boats put to sea in the early morning of the 21st April, but as there was a strong N.N.E. breeze and a heavy sea, the majority of them con- sidered it advisable to return, and did so. At about 10 A.M. two of the boats were...
Amelia Lauro (1)
MARCH 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH A N D G O R L E S T O N , N O R F O L K . A t 10.56 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Italian steamer Amelia Lauro, of Naples, anchored in the roadstead off Britannia Pier, was making...
Thom
DROGHEDA.—On the 11th May, at about 11.30 A.M., a vessel was reported to be in distress outside the Bar. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, John Rutter Qhorley, were assembled, and the boat was launched as quickly as possible and proceeded out...
San Blas
Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.50 on the morning of the 12th of September, 1959, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the motor vessel San Blas of Stockholm was ill and needed medical...
Our Heroes
"Tis a terrible night, and the seas run mountains high, The wind is howling fiercely, with a dark and sullen sky; Eyes are aching and blinded with the driving sleet and rain, And thoughts turn to those who are going out, who may never...
Category: Poetry
May (1)
LLANERCHYMOR, FLINTSHIRE. At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1945, an Anson aeroplane came down in the Dee Estuary, off Llanerchymor. A strong southwest wind was blowing, but the sea was calm.
The crash was...
Category: Services
William
On the 30th October the ketch William, of Peterhead, attempted to make the harbour but was overpowered by the sea and driven against the South Pier.
The Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon at once proceeded to her assistance,...
Miniature Life-Boat Medals
THE Institution is issuing to living holders of its gold, silver and bronze medals, miniature reproductions of their medals. These miniatures will be half the size of the originals. They will have on them the reverse of j the originals,...
Category: Medals
None (1)
On the night of the 28th April the coastguard tele- phoned that two men had been ma- rooned at the foot of the cliffs at Capel Llockwyd, near South Stack. One of them had been rescued by lines from the top of the cliffs, but the other...