LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gay William
YACHT WAS SINKING At 4 a.m. on i8th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Bognor and at 4.10 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put to sea. A fresh wind was blowing from the south-west, the...
Mary-Brigitte
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 7th of February, 1959, the coxswain of the Valentia life-boat was informed that the French trawler Mary-Brigitte of Concarneau was sinking three miles south of the...
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1889 issue THE LIFE-BOAT HOUSE The boats of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under...
Category: Articles
Foreign Decorations for British Life-Boatmen
Longhope IN Kirkwall Town Hall, in the Orkneys, on 22nd July, with the Provost in the chair, Captain J. D. Daintree, C.B.E., R.N. (Inspector-General of Coast Guard), presented to Second Coxswain W.
Mowat and the Crew of the...
Category: Awards
Northern Star and Lord Londesborough
About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January the wind increased and the weather became very bad, which caused considerable anxiety for the safety of some of the cobles which had left for the fishing grounds earlier in the morning....
Irish Government Grant
The Minister for Transport and Power in the Irish Republic, Mr. Brian Lenihan, has decided to make a payment to the Institution of an annual grant of £10,000 towards the cost of operating the life-boat services in the Irish Republic. In...
Category: Donations
(Right) As An Honorary Member of Beaumaris Lifeboat Crew Sir Jimmy Savill Obe
(Right) As an honorary member of Beaumaris lifeboat crew Sir Jimmy Savill QBE has always been a friend to the RNLI and when Storm Force was first introduced he was quick to support the junior club by writing a message in an early issue of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
March of Liverpool and Richard,of Bangor
On the 19th of February, the schooners March, of Liverpool, and Richard, of Ban- gor, were stranded in Moelfre Bay, during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. Both vessels at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly responded to...
Watford
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 10th December the Caister No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, put off at 2 P.M., and remained by the steamer Watford, of Sunderland, laden with iron ore from Bilbao for Stockton, which had stranded on the North Barber Sand...
Fishing Boats (3)
GOURDON.—The Life-boat Young George Irlam was launched at about 2 P.M. on the 24th January, and remained outside the harbour until two fishing-boats, which were in danger during a S.S.W. wind, stormy weather, and a heavy sea, safely entered....