LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dos Amigos
WRECKAGE SIGHTED Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 3.45 p.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Dos Amigos of Newlyn had been reported missing....
Awe And Wonder
VoIces Awe and wonder Garden designer Chris Beardshaw is passionate about the earth, the sea – and the RnLi, as Liz Cook fi nds out ‘What is your idea of Paradise?’ that is Chris’s question to everyone for whom he designs a garden. there is...
Category: Articles
Adoration, Ebenezer and Nellie
CAUGHT BY SUDDEN GALES Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — On the morning of the 13th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of several local fishing boats at sea, for a gale was getting up, and at 12.15, when it was blowing a...
Pile of Pennies
Pile of pennies Jeff and Tina Kelly, proprietors of The Albert in Llandudno invited customers to donate to their lifeboat penny pile. The pile, which was demolished in July by Llandudno lifeboat crew members, raised £325 for lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Here and There
Bradford and District branch has presented former Lord Mayor, Councillor Tom Hall, with a leather-bound book containing the names of the thousands of people who have contributed to his appeal for funds to cover the cost of a new lifeboat at...
Category: Articles
Jeune Arthur
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the morning of the 19th January, during the prevalence of a whole gale and heavy sea, the cutter Jeune Arthur, of Cherbourg, bound from Dunkirk for Granville, was observed making for the land under forestaysail and jib...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...
Category: Awards
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations...
Category: Awards
Rambler and Mary Ann and Francis
On the 2nd Feb.
this Life-boat, the Covent Garden, was launched five times, with a succession of fresh crews, and ultimately succeeded in saving 13 lives from the schooners Ram- Wer, of Wexford, and Mary Ann, of Ply- mouth...
Bonnie Lass
THURSO, — Flare lights were burnt by the schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick, bound for Castle Hill, in ballast, which was riding in Scrabster Eoadstead, during a violent gate from the N.W., and a terrible sea on the 2nd February. The Life-boat...