LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tranquillity (2)
Barrow, Lancashire.—Ar two o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that a fishing boat about six miles off shore between Barrow and Heysham appeared to be drifting. He told the...
Hopeful
FISHING KETCH AGROUND At 4.17 p.m. the following day, the Queen's harbourmaster told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on the breakwater near the lighthouse. As the tide was due to ebb for i^- hours and there was a fresh...
People and Places
RNLI lottery 'You need hands' was the watchword on the day Max Bygraves drew the winning tickets for the 34th national lottery on July 31, 1986. Mr Bygraves, who was appearing in a summer show at the Poole Arts Centre, kept the...
Category: Articles
100 Years Ago
THE present year (1861) came in on our English north-eastern coast in storm and fury. For the two last days of the dying year a tempest had been brewing; and on New-Year's Day, when we quiet city folks were exchanging "com- pliments...
Category: Articles
Brig O'Doone
Islay, Hebrides. At 10.20 on the night of the 16th of July, 1959, the lighthouse keeper at Rhuvaal informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had fired distress flares a mile and a half north-north-east of...
"Life-Boat Saturday."
FULL many a tongue and full many a pen Has told of the praise of the Life-boat men.
Their daring deeds are their country's boast, From the Shetland Isles to the Cornish coast; From treacherous quicksand and sunken rock...
Category: Poetry
Mrs Mary Mercer,
NOVEMBER 1994 Mrs Mary Mercer, chairman of Blackburn ladies' guild from 1967 to 1976 and vice president from 1976 until her death..
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Eileen Haw,
Mrs Eileen Haw, souvenir secretary of Coventry ladies lifeboat guild from 1984 until 1991. She first joined the guild in 1981 and continued to serve the committee until shortly before her death..
Category: Obituaries
Elephant
The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.
During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1927.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members of the Committee of...
Category: Committee