LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Colonel T. H. Cornish, of Penzance
By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...
Category: Obituaries
Rian
On the morning of the 24th November the coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore at West Runton. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.30 A.M. She found the motor barge...
Omega
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the piermaster had seen some people in a yacht in the harbour waving for help.
At 12.30 the life-boat R.L.P. was...
Rescue By Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
Ox the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of November. 1956, a man who lived at Portland in Dorset. Mr. H.
W. Wilkinson, went out in his 20-feet motor boat Hilda Mari/ from Castletown and made for Portland Bill, where he...
Category: Articles
Mary Ann Mandel
On the afternoon of the 16th November a N.E. gale sprang up, bringing with it a heavy sea, and caused the schooner Mary Ann Mandel, of Barrow, which was riding off Kings- downe, to get into a dangerous position.
She...
Dawn
AUGUST 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the evening the coxswain received a telephone call from the Colwyn Bay police that a boat was in distress one and a half miles off Colwyn pier.
A fresh...
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Category: Advertisement
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Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 8.40 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, the staff-coxswain of the 70-foot life-boat was told that there was a sick man on the South Lundy lighthouse and asked if he could take a doctor to Lundy island. It was...
Pedler
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 27th of June, 1955, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Pedler, which had a crew of two, had capsized off Primrose Valley. A fishing coble and another vacht went to her help, and at...
Doubled Up
Eliza Fraser, Victoria Jones and Ella Neame teamed up on the last day of the Swanage regatta to paint stones collected from the seaside and sell them in aid of the RNLI.
John, Eliza's dad, volunteered to double whatever... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs