LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Ascension Island
THE following letter comes from the manager of the station of the Eastern Telegraph Company, on that remote spot in the South Atlantic, Ascension Island : " As a result of the receipt of your booklet, The Story of the Life-boat, I had...
Category: Correspondence
Longest Winter Service
THE Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica), Ltd., has once again awarded a case of rum to the life-boat crew which carried out the longest service during the winter months of 1955-56. The award has gone to the crew of the Arklow...
Category: Awards
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At 3.30 p.m. on igth March, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a child on Inishere island with appendicitis would have to be taken to hospital on the mainland. The sea was too rough for any local boat to make the...
Tennessarian, of Liverpool
On the 26th De- cember the ship Tenessarian, of Liverpool, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind from the N., on Arklow Bank. As soon as possible the Arklow life-boat was launched, and found the vessel on the bank about three miles to...
Yachts and a Sailboard
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Ocean Starlight
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 1.40 a.m. on 19th March, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing boat Ocean Starlight was ashore on the rocks at the entrance to Mallaig harbour. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a boy was trapped in a cave at Point Giltar. There was a strong south-westerly wind with a moderate sea and a heavy...
Life-Boat Stamp Club
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, reports that the club is growing, but that the demand for stamps is greater than the supply.
Besides...
Category: Articles
Coxswain J. T. Lethbridge, of St. Mary's, Scillies
Coxswain James Thomas Lethbridge, of St. Mary's, Scillies, died on 1st January, at the age of seventy-one.
He had spent twenty-eight years as an officer of the life-boat, being appointed bowman in 1897, second coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
Lt Col Gerald Ross,
Lt Col Gerald Ross, deputy organising secretary of Ireland from 1952 until his retirement in 1967. He joined the Institution after many years service with the Royal Marines..
Category: Obituaries