LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Earl of Beaconsfield
HORNSEA.—On the morning of Tuesday, the 8th November, during a moderate E. gale and a heavy sea, rockets were fired in quick succession by the fourmasted ship Earl of Beaconsfield, of London, bound from Calcutta for Hull with a cargo of...
I Had Loads Of Fun Taking Photos Of Paddington While On Holiday In Italy
Dear Editor I had loads of fun taking photos of Paddington while on holiday in Italy – although others on the beach thought me a little ‘eccentric’ to say the least. Best regards Mick Parker Competition Winner. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When Isabel Morison North Region Coordinator Retired Last December She Was Presented With a Coalport Plate By Clifford M Kershaw (I) Chairman of Bradford Branch On
When Isabel Morison, north region coordinator, retired last December she was presented with a Coalport plate by Clifford M. Kershaw (I.) chairman of Bradford branch on behalf of lifeboat people of Bradford. Councillor Tom Hall, president of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Years and Three Months of War
In five years and three months of war our life-boats have rescued 5,895 lives from ships and aeroplanes. That is an average of 21 lives every week, or three lives rescued for every one during the 20 years of peace between the two...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Collecting house flags of various shipping lines is the hobby of Mr. C. M. Pope, who lives near Sherborne in Dorset. For each flag received he sends a contribution to the R.N.L.I., this "consideration money" amounting to an average...
Category: Donations
Rollo of Braye, Solveig and French Yacht Pupas
Long night at sea in poor visibility Alderney South West Division Alderney's Waveney class lifeboatLoww Marches! of Round Table spent seven hours at sea on the night of 8/9 July attending four separate calls in poor visibility, which was...
Two Life-Boat Families. The Wiggs, of Kessingland, and the Stone-Houses, of Teesmouth and Redcar
THE Institution, at the end of last year, awarded a special Vellum to Mr.
Edward Wigg, sen., of Kessingland, in recognition of the exceptional services which he and his family have rendered to the Life-boat Service. He...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east,...
Category: Services
Forecasts of Weather
By VICE-ADMIRAL E. Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
THE Life-Boat Journal having aided practical meteorology, the following memorandum, ' as a general answer to numerous observations and questions, may interest its readers: j and as...
Category: Articles
Limelight, of Greenock
At 5.17 a.m. on loth October, 1966, three red flares were sighted off Port Ellen light. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley left her moorings at 5.37 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was four...