LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Vessel (1)
MARCH 6TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
A motor vessel had gone ashore at Whitburn Point, but she was too far inshore for the life-boat to be able to get near her.- Rewards, £7 11s..
A Yacht (3)
OCTOBER 23RD. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
The coastguard had reported a yacht in difficulties, but nothing could be found, and later she was reported to have passed Dover.
- Rewards, £16 5s..
A Washington Aircraft (4)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...
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Category: Advertisement
Grace Darling Alias Barbara Leverett
Grace Darling, alias Barbara Leverett, and her father, alias Herbert Argent, row purposefully through Steeple Bumpstead Carnival, held last May; the RNLI souvenir stand took £100 that day. In August the same float was again to be seen... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wicklow Visit
Frank Fahey TD. the new Irish Minister fof Marine and Natural Resources, made a special visit to Wicklow lifeboat station m March this year Minister Fahey was in Wicklow to board the new Irish Lights vessel Granuaile which later brought him... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
God Help Our Men at Sea!
God help our men at sea! In firelit, pictured rooms, 'mid wine and flowers, And gleesome company, The wild winds awe us, in our blithest hours, To sigh this prayer; God help our men at sea ! I had a brother once. Our love ne'er...
Category: Poetry
A Motor Boat
Open boat swamped TYNE COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Sunderland lifeboat station at 1659 on Saturday September 10, 1983, that a small boat was in difficulties a quarter of a mile inside the south pier. It was a squally...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Mr. ROBERT LEES has been elected an HONORARY LIFE-GOVERNOR of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given to the life-boat service as honorary secretary of the Wicklow...
Category: Awards
A Canoe
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 12th of August, 1950, some visitors said that a canvas canoe seemed to be in diffi- culties two miles south-east of Dunmore.
A man and a boy of twelve were...