LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings
IT will have been observed, and doubtless with regret by many of our readers, that in the early part of last month (December, 1866) Government notified their intention of, at least for a season, discontinuing the well-known Storm Warnings to...
Category: Articles
The Centenary: In London. Gold Medallists Decorated By the King
DURING its first century the Institution awarded its Gold Medal for gallantry and conspicuous service in saving life from shipwreck, ninety-five times. Fourteen Gold Medals were also awarded for other forms of service to the Institution, but...
Category: Medals
A Grand Bit of Service
THE Gorleston Life-boat, the Marie Lane, which has such a magnificent record of fine work, added another page to her illustrious annals by the service rendered in connexion with the wreck of the schooner Dart, of Jersey, on the 29th March...
Category: Articles
No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT as the number involved would soon swamp the journal. We endeavour to report as many fundraising events as possible after they have taken...
Category: Articles
The Government Lighter Devon
On the night of the 23rd October, the government lighter Devon, was totally wrecked during a gale and heavy sea on the Brisson's Rocks.
At,daybreak one of the crew was seen from the land, and the Cousins William and...
Daniel
Informa- tion having been received on the llth October that a vessel was ashore on the West Hoyle Bank, steps were taken to verify it, and at 5.35 P.M. signals were fired for the Life-boat. With all despatch the H. 0. Powell was launched and...
Ann Grace
POINT OF AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and HOYLAKE (CHESHIRE). — On the 21st February, during a whole gale from W.
with a very heavy sea, intelligence was received that rockets were being fired in the direction of Lime Wharf. The Point...
The Cabin-Cruiser Diana II
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30...
Davaar
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 8.10 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1953, the life-boat tractor driver reported that the local motor cruiser Davaar was in distress a hundred yards east of East Pier. At 8.20 the life-boat James and Ruby...