LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes on the Quarter
IN THE January number of THE LIFE-BOAT details were given of some of the R.N.L.I.'s plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its foundation in 1974. To these may now be added an important appeal which is being made to civic heads...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the 'Pomona'
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
Category: Services
The Aberdeen Trawler Evergreen
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire On the 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen was wrecked at Rosehearty.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes rescued the crew of nine.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money...
The Scarweather Lightship
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—-On the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1948, a message came from the Scarweather Lightship that a man had committed suicide on board, and as the Trinity House vessel was under repair, the life- boat, William...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of the late Coxswain Angus McPhail, of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who died on 29th June last, at the age of sixty, after a distinguished career in the life-boat.
He was coxswain for thirteen years...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
KILMORE, co. WEXFORD. — The schooner Antelope of Wexford stranded, during thick but moderate weather on the 6th May, about half a mile east of Bastardstown. Information of the casualty was received from the Coastguard at 3 A.M., and the crew...
Category: Services
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE ninth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Insti- tution's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with "the help of the Staff at Headquarters, took place on the 7th January, at the Bromley Public Hall.<...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Boat Victory
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.32 on the night of the 31st of August, 1954. a man rang up to say that his sailing boat Victory had put out that morning with a crew of two and nine visitors, but had not returned. At 10.50 the life-boat Hearts of...
Thanks from the Admiralty
Following the assistance given by the Bembridge life-boat to H.M.S. Submarine Alliance after she had grounded in January, 1968, Admiral Sir John Frewen, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, wrote to the Institution: 'I should like to...
Category: Correspondence
The Launch D.421049
NOVEMBER 26TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.5 in the afternoon the coastguard asked for the life-boat to go out and escort in the naval harbour launch. A westsouth- west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell on the harbour bar....