LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An American Fighter Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An American fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea off Worthing, but the pilot saved himself in his own dinghy. - Rewards, £8 1s..
The St. Govans Light-vessel (1)
FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.
Govans Light-vessel as...
Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at...
Category: Services
Girl Ann
Gampbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1955, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that an ex-coastguardsman at Feorlin had reported that two ex- hausted men from the fishing boat Girl Ann, of Fraserburgh,...
Histories of Six Life-Boat Stations. Rhyl, The Lizard, Tynemouth, Sennen Cove, Bembridge and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
DURING the past three years excellent histories have been written, and pub- lished locally, of six life-boat stations.
Rhyl celebrated its centenary in 1952,"and The Story of Rhyl's Life- boats, 1852 to 1952 was...
Category: Articles
The Mary Ann & The Margaret Garston
At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 26th February, during a whole S.S.W. gale with a very heavy sea, signals of distress were ob- served from a vessel in the bay. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was at once ordered out, and...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain William J. Hughes, of Rhyl, who retired at the end of 1948 after serving for 21 years as an officer of the life-boat..
Category: Articles
The New Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ONE of the first Life-boat Stations to be provided with, a Motor Life-boat was Stromness, in the Orkneys. It was in 1903 that a Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat was first converted to motor-power.
This Boat was followed by two...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat Crew
MY theme is a very old one Yet one that's ever new, 'Tis about those sturdy heroes The gallant life-boat crew.
Each year they add fresh laurels To their glorious scroll of fame; Their daring deeds are known to all...
Category: Poetry
The Herring-Boat Vivid, of Ferryden
MONTROSE.—On August 17th, at 1 P.M., the herring-boat Vivid of Ferryden, got aground on the Annat Bank, with a fresh south-easterly breeze, a good deal of sea on the bank. The Life-boat Roman Governor of Caer-Bun was launched and proceeded...