LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gallons of support
Caffeine, alcohol and fizzy drinks were all shunned in favour of water during our new fundraising challenge, H2Only. It was a tough ask for many of our supporters: giving up all drinks except for water for 2 weeks. But they were determined...
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A Life-Boat Worker of Four Years Old
THE following story of how a little girl of four years old worked for the Life-boats has been sent to the Institution by the Honorary Secretary of its Llandudno Branch:— "A little girl visitor, Betty Ruth Wharton, of Oldham, only four...
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Francis of Shields
On the 25th October, the brigantine Francis, of Shields, was totally wrecked, and afterwards sunk on the Cockle Sands during a strong W.N.W. wind, and in a heavy sea. The Mark Lane life-boat went out and brought safely ashore the...
Ariel, of Truro
After the Moses life-boat had returned to her station from the wreck of the Lizzie, a vessel was seen in distress in the offing. The boat was launched to her assistance; on reaching her it was found that she was in a leaky state, and likely...
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Notes of the Quarter
IN making his report on the past year's work of the life-boat service at the Institution's annual general meeting on the 30th of March, a meeting which is reported in full on page 436, Earl Howe, the Chairman of the Committee of...
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The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £163 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.
This is their seventeenth annual col- lection and they have now collected* over...
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Malcolm Wood Second Officer of Townsend Thoresen's Baltic Ferry
Malcolm Wood, second officer of Townsend Thoresen's Baltic Ferry walked 200 miles for the Harwich lifeboat. The sponsored walk from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Whitbv High Light in Yorkshire look II days and raised over il ,000. Malcolm... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silent, of Cowes
The Bembridge Motor Life-boat went out on 7th December to the help of the ketch Silent, of Cowes, and found her with her head sails blown away and her windlass smashed. Although she was sinking, the men on board refused to leave her, so the...
1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
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