LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shanty Competition
The R.N.L.I. is looking for talent for a lifeboatmen's shanty competition. The idea is for one song, essentially about the sea, to be composed and sung by a group of five life-boatmen serving or retired. Groups of life-boatmen wishing to...
Category: Articles
Janetta
Workington, Cumberland - At 11.34 p.m. on 5th February, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boaiJanetta, with a crew of two, had broken down six and a half miles north west of Workington. At 11.54 the...
One Stop Beyond, Racing In Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969,
When the dinghy One Stop Beyond, racing in Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969, broke her rudder near the harbour and started drifting seawards, her crew of two used paddles in the near gale force wind to reach security of a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. J. C. Hilton
An honorary secretary who gave active service to the Clovelly life- boat station for more than 40 years died on 26th November, 1963. This was Mr. J. C. Hilton, who joined the branch committee in 1922, was honorary secretary from 1932 to 1948...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Vessels (1)
RETURNED SAFELY At i p.m. on I3th March, 1964, the lifeboat coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorating weather. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 1.12 in a...
Grace Darling
For all that a century and a quarter has passed since Grace Darling and her father attained fame, over the years their story has attracted the interest of a succession of authors. Save for two early works, which were almost blatantly fiction...
Category: Articles
A Boat (4)
Dover, Kent. At 1.27 on the after- noon of the 12th September, 1961, a report was received that a small boat with one man on board was in diffi- culties west of the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moor- ings at 1.46 in...
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At 11.30 p.m. on igth July, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that a young man had been taken ill and urgently needed hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 12.30 a.m. on 20th July with the patient...
My Beauty, Autumn Rose and Lewis James
Cromer, Norfolk-At 8.15 a.m. on 5th August, 1966, owing to the deteriorating sea conditions, concern was felt for the safety of three crab boats still at sea. The No. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King was launched at 8.30 in a moderate...
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Longhope, Orkneys - At 11.15 a.m.
on 2 ist January, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient needed urgent hospital treatment.
The life-boat T.G.B., with the patient on board,...