LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Six Penny Stamps
FOUB years ago a lady living at Wylde Green, near Birmingham, asked the Prince of Wales to give her six penny stamps as capital to start a business on behalf of the Life-boat Service. The Prince sent the stamps, and a flourishing business,...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Poole, Dorset.—At 1.55 early on the morning of the 7th of July, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a dinghy, which three youths had hired the evening before, was missing from Rockby Sands. At 2.15 the life-boat...
EX-COXSWAIN HARRY LLOYD JONES
The death has taken place of ex-Coxswain Harry Lloyd Jones, formerly of Barmouth, Merionethshire, who took part in several daring rescues in Cardigan Bay. He was 70, and 12 years of his long service with the life-boats was spent as...
Category: Obituaries
Arbroath's Mersey Class Lifeboat Inchcape
Arbroath's Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape - seen here after her naming ceremony in 1994 - is a good example of the way in which a number of smaller legacies can be grouped together. 13 legacies, with an average value of £28.000 were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Del Johnson
Del Johnson Penlee deputy launching authority and station honorary treasurer, on 28 October.
Category: Obituaries
Merchant Royal, and American Steamer William B. Travis
JULY 3RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. During thick fog the British steamer Merchant Royal and the American steamer William B. Travis had collided. The life-boat could not find them and was recalled, when it was learned that an American ship was...
Ebor
HARWICH.—On the 19th February a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse and signals were shown by the Sunk Light-vessel. At 8.45 A.M. the Life-boat Springwell put out, and was towed by the steam-tug Harwich to the Sunk,...
Summary of the Year's Work (1)
Lives Rescued.
Lives rescued by life-boats before the outbreak of war - - -197
Lives rescued by life-boats after the outbreak of war - - - 1001
Total of lives rescued by life-boats...
Category: Annual Reports
Lifeboat People
Dewi Rowlands, a launcher at St David's from 1942 and head launcher since 1963, is the third generation of his family to serve this lifeboat station.
When he retired in January, they had, between them, spanned the 97...
Category: Articles
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Torbay, Devon.—At 11.40 on the night of the 14th of July, 1957, the Berry Head coastguard telephoned to say a doctor had asked if the life-boat would put out to bring ashore a man who had fallen down a cliff at Shankham Point, as it would be...