LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Montagu
WEXFORD.—On the 25th April, at 11.30 A.M., the s.s. Montagu, of Liverpool, was observed ashore on the south side of the East Bar Channel. The Civil Service Life-boat was at once launched, and was taken in tow by the steam-tug Ruly, which had...
The Passenger Ship Lough Sunart
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 11th January, at 10.30 P.M., the passenger-ship Lough Sunart, of Glasgow^struck on Skulmartin Eeef. The night was clear, with light wind and smooth sea. Signals of distress were shown from the vessel, and the...
Forthcoming Articles
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Boat (1)
10th November. A sailing boat with twenty men and women on board, mostly agricultural workers returning from the Scottish potato harvest, put off from Burtonport for Arran Island at about 6 P.M. on the 9th November. There was a moderate but...
Book Review
S.O.S. The Story of the Life-boat Service. ByCyrilJolly. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) Mr. Jolly has already written the life of Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer.
Here he tells the story of the life-boat service. His book is...
Category: Articles
The Tale of the Life-Boat Man
DON'T you see the signal seaward? Can't you hear the rocket scream? Men and women start and listen, children waken from a dream; All the village wakes to action, all the storm is on the yell—- Buckle on your life-belts, brothers!...
Category: Poetry
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Patrick Power of Dunmore East.
He first joined the Dunmore East crew in 1925, became bowman in 1928 and second coxswain in 1934. He was appointed coxswain in January,...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Scottish Prince
The No. 1 Life-boat Lizzie Porter was called out for service on the 30th May to a trawler, which had stranded on the Goldstone Rock and eventually became a total wreck. Information reached Holy Islaad at about noon that a vessel was ashore,...
Lady Leila and Dawk Eeang
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 in the evening, on the 4th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a motor cruiser apparently aground near Goodwin Knoll buoy. At 6.55 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...