LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...
Category: Obituaries
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1932
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition was held this year for the twelfth time. The number of schools taking part in the competition was 2,249, as compared with 2,354 in 1931. The number of schools which took part in...
Category: Articles
Medal for Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...
Category: Medals
Great Rail Journeys
Lake Louise and Sulphur Mountain We take a cable car up Sulphur Mountain for breathtaking mountain views and travel to the beautiful Lake Louise for lunch. You have a free day to explore Banff or if you are feeling adventurous, enjoy a float...
Category: Advertisement
Active, of Cellardyke
On the 19th Sep- tember, the fishing-boat Active, of Cellar- dyke, N.B., was observed in distress during a strong E.N.E. wind and in a heavy sea, off Anstruther. The Admiral FitzRoy life- boat put out and brought the boat and her crew of 4...
A Fishing Coble
On the morning of the 4th December, the same Life-boat brought safely to land a fishing coble and her crew of four men, who had been caught in a gale from the E.S.E., and were in much peril..
Albert
NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.—Daring a fresh gale from the N.E. on the 21st November, the Nelson Life-boat was launched, and brought into port the disabled brigantine Albert, of Carlisle, and her crew of 5 men..
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS. — The Life - boat Cooperator No. I was launched at 11.30 A.M. and convoyed into harbour about twenty-five fishing-cobles, it being dangerous for the boats to attempt to cross the bar unattended, as a heavy sea was breaking on it...
Haldon
The Life-boat John Byburn was sent on 3rd March to the assistance of a vessel which had stranded on Ingal Skerry and was showing signals of distress.
A messenger reported at 10.30 A.M. that the vessel was on a dangerous...
Ocean and Queen's Jubilee
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. — About 4.30 P.M. on the 15th April two fishermen reported that two cobles, engager! in crab-catching between four and five miles north-east of the Castle foot,were in danger owing to the strong sea and...