LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trilby, of Benllech
AUGUST 5TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At ten o’clock at night the resident of a bungalow on the cliffs near Benllech reported to the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that signals were being made by torch from a launch...
Fishermen at War
No one knows more intimately the fishermen and life-boatmen of Whitby than Mr. Leo Walmsley, author of "Sally Lunn" and "Three Fevers," from which the film "Turn of the Tide", with its life-boat scenes, was made...
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Birthday honours
Many of the emergencies that our London lifeboat crews are called to involve immediate risk of drowning, so their 40-knot E class lifeboats are essential.
Now an RNLI engineer has been recognised with an MBE for her role...
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Ronachan, of Glasgow
On the 18th Jan. intelligence was received at the Isle of Whithorn that a large threes-masted vessel was at anchor in Luce Bay, in a position of some peril. The Charlie Peek Life-boat was thereupon quickly launched through a heavy sea, and,...
Gadj
JULY 31ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 7.30 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a small fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties, but that she had set a small sail and was approaching Britannia pier. A...
H.M. Minesweeper Wedgeport
OCTOBER 21ST. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.50 A.M. the Tara coastguard reported a vessel on the rocks at the old lighthouse on South Rock, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 7.30 A.M. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing,...
Shirken
JULY 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At 5.30 A.M. the coastwatchers reported that a small boat was in distress about five miles S.E. of Oysterhaven, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford 1, on temporary duty at the station, was...
77-year-old paperboy still delivers
Paper rounds have traditionally been carried out by children and young people – but 77-year-old David Rickard from Devon doesn’t let that stop him. Since 2006, the pensioner paperboy has been donating all of his wages and tips to good causes...
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Speed Boats
OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P .M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of...
A Gallant Girl and Four Gallant Boys
ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages...
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