LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
David Brann
'If the campaign succeeds in only encouraging an additional 2% of the population to remember a charity in their will, it would provide the voluntary sector with an extra £170m every year. That's more than the income generated by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dinas
brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close to rocks,...
The French Schooner, Pierre Desiree
On the same day a French schooner, the Pierre D6siree, got on the Hooper Sands, off Llanelly, during a moderate gale, with a heavy sea.
On her signals of distress being seen, the Life-boat Stanton Meyrick of Pimlico was...
Adelaide
When the brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close...
Life-Boat Day In Greater London
LIFE-BOAT day in Greater London was held on 15th May. Among those who helped with the appeal were the Lady Mayoress, who collected at the Mansion House, the Mayoress of West- minster, who collected in Trafalgar Square, and the Mayors of...
Category: Articles
A Bronze Medal Service By the Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from Birsay that a vessel was in distress...
Category: Medals
Devotion
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 11.36 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1960.
the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Devotion of Dunbar had fouled her propeller off the South Carr beacon and...
Swiftsure
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 on the morning of the 4th of September, 2959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had gone ashore on the north side of Wick harbour in thick fog. At 2.55 the life- boat City of...
Skylark
During the after- noon of the 10th July the coastguard telegraphed that a small motor boat had broken down one mile south of the Southbourne coastguard station. She was the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, and was bound, with four men and two...
A Vessel
A vessel's light having been observed in a dangerous position near the breakers in the S.E. part of the bay near PenrhynPoint during a whole gale from the N.W.
and a very heavy sea on the morning of the 26th January,...