LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1,080 Halfpennies
THE Institution has received from a London man a gift of a collection of 1,080 halfpennies.
Category: Donations
Scholarships for Sons of Life-Boatmen
THE Outward Bound Sea School, at Aberdovey, which runs four-weekly courses in seamanship and some other out-of-door subjects for boys from fifteen to eighteen and a half years old, offered the Institution in March of this year six King...
Category: Articles
A Small Vessel
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.55 in the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1948, the Strumble Head coastguard telephoned that a small vessel appeared to be in distress six miles to the west- ward. Five minutes later he saw her flying...
A Canoe
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1952, a motor-cyclist arrived at the life-boat station and reported that a canoe with a boy clinging to it was being carried out to sea off Newbiggin, about five miles...
Guernsey's 150th Anniversary
Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown presents the vellum to Sir Thomas Elmhirst (see page 658). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To DAVID Mum, on his retirement, after serving 22 years as Coxswain, 7 years as Second Coxswain and 5 years as Bowman of the Girvan Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To JOHN WM. PARKINSON, on his retirement...
Category: Awards
Five Brothers
The Motor Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 9.30 A M. on the 29th December during a strong W.N.W. breeze, and assisted to save the sprit-sail barge Five Brothers, of Rochester, which had had her spars carried away, whilst bound from...
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth.
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth, died on 31st October at the age of seventy. He had served in the Criccieth Life-boat for some forty years.
From 1890 to 1901 he...
Category: Obituaries
A Dutch Vessel
4th March. A Dutch vessel was wrecked on Blackwater Bank, but another vessel rescued the crew.— Permanent crew, Rewards, £2 6s. 6d..
Glenravil Miner
PORT EYNON, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—On the 22nd March the schooner Glenravil Miner, of Barrow, was observed to miss stays and strand at Over ton Cliffs, a mile and a half west of Port Eynon Point; she was rolling very much and her crew were seen...