LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1890
Jan. 4.—Two men put off in a coastguard boat and rescued the crew of three men of the barge Dewdrop, of Portsmouth, which had foundered in Langston Harbour, Hampshire, in a moderate gale from the S. W. and a rough sea—Reward....
Category: Articles
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Saved by her dog's eyes When 14-year-old Catherine Sharman and her dog, Jet, became trapped on rocks by the tide, it proved difficult just to find her. Nightfall, driving rain, rough seas and strengthening winds all posed a challenge to...
Towing Lines. a Discussion
Towing was an appropriate topic of conversation between this year's medal winning coxswains and Cdr George Cooper, the RNLl's deputy chief of operations. In three out of the four services recognised the casualty was towed to safety...
Category: Articles
Rescue In a Hurricane. A Silver-Medal Service at Tenby
ABOUT 4.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the coastguard at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, reported that a small steamer was in distress. She was the Fermanagh, of Belfast, bound light for Llanelly. A gale was blowing from the south-west, with...
Category: Services
Letters
Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.
Category: Correspondence
Hospital and Pensions for Aged and Disabled Master Mariners and Seamen of the Merchant Navy
A DEPUTATION from the " Shipwrecked Mariners' Society," consisting of several noblemen and gentlemen, headed by his Grace the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society, had an interview yesterday With the President of the...
Category: Articles
Wave
SIDMOUTH.—At about 1 P.M. on the 7th August, the schooner Wave, of Guernsey, being at anchor in a dangerous position off this station, it blowing a gale from S., hoisted a signal of distress, and the Life-boat Rimington was launched, and...
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Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The...
Golden Charter
GOLDEN CHARTER V FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended by the National Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...
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