LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Carol Singers
At Christmas, in 1927, a choir of twelve, got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, went carol singing, and were so successful that they were able to send £25 to the Institution. Last Christmas the effort...
Category: Donations
Sirius
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 16th April, 1938, the local motor boat Sirius put out from Forth Clais with seventeen people on board, for a trip to Grasholme. They did not return when expected, and anxiety was felt for...
Marguerite, Isabel and Rita
The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 9.15 A.M. on the 24th February to the assistance of the cobles Marguerite and Isabel and Rita, which were overtaken by rough weather when to the north of the Brig. The E.S.E. wind caused the sea...
Membership News
Can you help? A message from Corporate Fundraising Manager Barbara Trousdell: Do you have a few hours to spare for a couple of weeks a year? Would you like to become involved in making sure local promotions in aid of the Institution run...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
FLAMBOROUGH.—On the 15th January, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., with a heavy sea, six of the fishing-boats were trying to reach the North Landing, but were unable to do so in consequence of the state of the wind and sea. The...
Advance
While a whole gale from S.E. was raging, accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the night of the 14th January, signals of distress were observed from a vessel on the " Middle Ridge," near Appledore. The Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald...
An Aeroplane (10)
APRIL 25TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 2.40 in the afternoon the Greenore military look-out post reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about a mile north of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse.
Messages were also...
A Rubber Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.6 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy with children on board was adrift one mile off Jaywick, and the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at half-past...
A Gannet Aircraft (2)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Albert
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 8th of March, 1956, the coast- guard reported that a body had been ?een on the north shore. It was believed to be the body of one of six men who had put off in the rowing boat Albert the night...