LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Countess, of Lisburne
On the 13th December the smack Countess of Zdsburne, of Aberystwyth, laden with limestone, was observed in a dangerous position on Car- digan Bar, in a heavy ground swell. The life-boat was immediately launched, and, proceeding through the...
Rescue of a Deer
IN the middle of June, 1939, a roe deer crossed the golf course opposite Aber- deen harbour, entered the harbour channel, and swam out to sea. Cox- swain Thomas Sinclair (who has twice won the Institution's silver medal for gallantry and...
Category: Articles
George, of Sunderland
The Grocers life-boat .at Mnndesley saved 1 man from the brig George, of Sun- derfand, which was wrecked off that place.
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
ONE of the happiest and most success- ful of annual Life-boat functions is the summer Road "Exercise and Launch of the Cullercoats Life-boat at Whitley Bay. On that day the Fishwives of Cullercoats, headed by Mrs. Mary Scott, th;...
Category: Articles
Jesse Anna, of Whitby
On the 22nd of September last, at 3 A. M., the brig Jesse Anna, of Whitby, ran on the Goodwin Sands. On signals of distress being made by the light- vessels, the Ramsgate life-boat, in tow of the Harbour Commissioners' steamer Aid,...
Maid of Loughshinney
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.30 on the morning of the 16th of November, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed a boat about seven miles to the east heading out to sea. She appeared to have stopped and was seen through a tele- scope to be...
Mischief, of Carnarvon
On 24th January following the life-boat again went out, during a hurricane from the S., to the assistance of the schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, which had gone ashore on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of the...
District Conferences In the North of England and London
CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
Category: Meetings
Mr. S.J.R. Legerton, of Clacton-On-Sea
BY the death of Mr. Robert Legerton on 28th September, at the age of eighty, the Institution has lost one who has been closely associated with its Clacton- on-Sea Station since its establishment fifty-two years ago, and who, as a Coxswain,...
Category: Obituaries
End of An Era:
End of an era: on the retirement of Coxswain David Cox of Wells I above) til the end of August, the station was without / member of the Cox family fur the first time in three generations. David Cox was a member of the crew for 43 vears and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs