LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ketches The Norvic and The Doric
At about 11 A.M.
on the 19th August information was received that two large ketches had stranded on the N.W. part of the Margate sand. The weather at the time being very unsettled with a strong N.N.W. breeze and choppy...
Burry Port Ladies' Guild Put on a Memorable Performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Last Christmas Produced By Janet Cross With a Large Cast of Youngsters W
Burry Port ladies' guild put on a memorable performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs last Christmas, produced by Janet Cross with a large cast of youngsters. With only a one-night stand, tickets were sold out weeks in advance and a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contest, of Guernsey
On the 16th Novem- i ber, the brig Contest, of Guernsey, was I stranded during a gale of wind from the I East, on the Hook Sands. The Manley I Wood life-boat at Poole went out three | times and took off 46 men from the...
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore In the Republic of Ireland
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore in the Republic of Ireland first joined the lifeboat crew in 1955. He became second coxswain in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1972, being awarded a long service badge in 1982. John is a boat builder by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notices of Books. The Mercantile Marine Magazine
AMONGST the numerous valuable periodical publications, magazines, and reviews, with which the literature of this country abounds, is it not strange that, until but recently, there should have been none exclusively representing and devoted to...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Duke of Sparta
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. — About 11.40 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Duke of Sparta had wire- lessed that she was on the Seven Stones Rocks. A later message said that she was making...
A Call for the Life-Boat
Dark is the night, and fierce are the winds— , On, gallant bark! to the sinking ship, When lo, a cry Nor wind, nor wave Kings wildly forth—"A ship on the rocks, | Can daunt the hearts...
Category: Poetry
Lena, of Waterford
NOVEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 3.35 in the afternoon coastwatchers at Brownstown Head saw a boat in difficulties in Tramore Bay and informed the life-boat station. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a very...
Guide Friendship I Is Launched at Aberdovey After Being Handed Over to the Institution By Mrs D Parker-Bowles Commonwealth Guide Commissioner Photograph By Cour
Guide Friendship I is launched at Aberdovey after being handed over to the Institution by Mrs. - View image in PDF
D. Parker-Bowles, Commonwealth Guide Commissioner. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Janet Walker. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Castilian, of London
About midnight on the 4th December, during a strong wind from the S.W., and in a heavy sea, the ship Castilian, of London, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with timber, took the ground on the south side of Portmadoc...