LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe
Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe, Kent, who died on 18th September last, at the age of sixty-nine, was a member of a family whose name is very familiar in the history of the Hythe Life-boat Station. He went to sea as a boy, and then as a young...
Category: Obituaries
Gifts from Crews
On the 17th May, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, which was in distress in a moderate northerly gale, and rescued her crew of four men. Out of the salvage money received, the Life-boat Crew have made...
Category: Donations
The Naval Seaplane W2670
JULY 13TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea half a mile east of Buchanness, and the motor life-boat .Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5.5 P.M...
The Best Essay
By DENIS BUTLER (aged 14J), of Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
Why I admire the Life-boatman.
WHEN we consider the higher qualities with which men are endowed, we find that we admire...
Category: Articles
The Greek Brig Marietta
At 4 a.m., on the 19th October, the Greek brig Mari- etta, from Lisbon, for Cardiff, in ballast, ran ashore on some rocks in Tramore Bay.
One of the crew, at great peril to himself, plunged into the surf with a line, and...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Captain William Watts-Williams, the coxswain of the St. David's life-boat. Captain Watts-Williams first went to sea at the age of thirteen, forty-nine years ago, and after a long and varied career,...
Category: Articles
The Corton Lightvessel
SICK MAN ON A LIGHT-VESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 11.47 in the morning of January 6th, 1947, a message was received through the coastguard from the Trinity House superintendent, that a keeper aboard the...
The Barrels Lightvessel
SICK MAN FROM LIGHTVESSEL LANDED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 7.50 on the morning of the 15th March, 1963, the local agent for the Irish Lights office informed the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the Barrels lightvessel was suffering...
Photographs Which Capture the True Nature the Weather In Which Lifeboats Operate Are Rare
Photographs which capture the true nature of the weather in which lifeboats operate are rare - but this picture of the Portrush (Ireland Division) Arun Richard Evans (Civil Service No.39) on 13 February 1989 certainly does.
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers (1)
Banking on their support Among the thousands competing in the New York marathon last November was a young lady wearing a Lizard lifeboat Tshirt.
The young lady in question was Elizabeth Foster, born and bred in Mullion, but...
Category: Articles