LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat
At 3.45 P.M., on the 25th April, the Coastguard reported that a small boat had capsized off Whitmore Bay, and two men were clinging to her. The Life-boat, John Wesley, was smartly launched, and, in tow of a tug, pro- ceeded to the capsized...
Ark
TWO RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Llanina reef and that her crew of two were unable to...
Orb
BRIDLINGTON. — At 8 o'clock on the morning of the 8th December, 1880, during a gale from the S., a vessel was reported to be driving on to the North Beach. The Life-boat, William, John and Frances, was launched, but although strenuous...
Prim
Fowey, Cornwall.—During the morn- ing of the 15th of January, 1950, the Polruan coastguard had under observa- tion a fishing boat with a motor boat in tow. At 12.10 in the afternoon he reported that the boats were in distress about two miles...
A Silent Appeal
A NOVEL form of appeal was tried in Norwich this year. In place of a life-boat flag day, a silent appeal was made. There were no collectors.
Instead twenty-six large life-boat col- lecting boxes, hung on davits, were placed...
Category: Donations
Power-Driven Life-Boats
IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Diary
"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
Category: Articles
Argo
GORLESTON.—Signal-guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Mark Lane put off at 6.35 A.M. on the 7th February, in a rough sea and a strong N. by E. breeze, and found the brigantine Argo, of Marstal, bound from Fowey for...
Vrede (1)
ATTEMPTING TO SALVE A DUTCH STEAMER The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—At about 10.30 in the morning of February 21st, 1947, the master of the motor vessel Vrede, of Rotterdam, which had gone ashore four miles...
A Fine Cromer Service
" 'Tis not in mortals to command success," though none deserve it better than a Life-boat crew, battling with the elements for the lives of their fellow- men. It is our pride that in most cases the victory is with the Life-boat...
Category: Articles