LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Star
" At 2 A.M. on the 23rd October, the Lifeboat proceeded to the assistance of a schooner; bnt her services were not called into requisition. The boat regained her station at six o'clock, and had only been moored forty minutes when...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 29, 39, 44, the following launches on service were made during the months September to November, 1967, inclusive.
Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Daisy
The Life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M., and at 7 P.M. was again towed out by the steamer and rescued the crow of four men from the smack Daisy, of Ramsgate, which, in trying to enter the harbour at low water, took the ground and...
A Double Gift
MEN of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, from Shorncliffe Camp, took part, as launchers, in a life-boat service at Hythe on the afternoon of 28th July, when the motor life-boat went out to the help of the yacht Leonora Minnie,...
Category: Donations
Leader
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, a man telephoned the coxswain to say that he had seen red flares out to sea.
The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a very rough sea with a strong...
Rosebud
ST. ANDREW'S.—At about 9 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd February, the schooner Eosebud, of Goole, was seen from St. Andrew's, but the weather becoming thick she was lost sight of. She 'was next observed at about 11...
Mr. Ernest Armstrong
BY the death of Mr. Ernest Armstrong, of Eastbourne, on the 3rd of June, 1952, at the age of 78, the Life-boat Service has lost one of its most devoted and energetic friends, and the committee of management a col- league whose help and...
Category: Obituaries
Khaki
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 1.0 on the afternoon of the 16th of May, 1951, the life-boat shore attendant told the coast- guard that a boat in Pegwell Bay was making a signal. She had apparently anchored near the breakers. The coast- guard passed...
A Hundred Years Ago
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—A life-boat station in connection with the National Life-boat Institution has been founded at Arklow, on the East Coast of Ireland and a life-boat on Mr. Peake's design, 30-feet long, and rowing 10 oars, double banked,...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Samuel Parker
APRIL 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Information was picked up by North Foreland Radio and passed through the coastguard to the life-boat station that a steamer was aground off Great Yarmouth and in need of tugs. At 7.11 in...