LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs. Bella Mattison of Cullercoats. The Last of a Memorable Band
MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.
The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....
Category: Articles
Well Dressing
Well dressing - a Derbyshire tradition dating back to 7350 - is a thanksgiving for the purity for the water in the village wells. The Sir William Hillary display, left, was designed by Ruth Markwell for the West Hallam branch and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Services In 1898
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES IN 1898.
Lives saved.
Addgunde, barque, of Tonsberg 12 Albert, ketch, of Watchet......... 3 Anglo-Saxon, barge — rendered assistance.
Annie Warren, sch.,...
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Wireless Telegraphy
THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...
Category: Articles
Honey Bee
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.40 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Honey Bee of Peterhead was leaking badly and in danger of sinking off Buchan Ness. At...
John Bull, of Yarmouth
On the 17th February, the smack John Bull, of Yarmouth, parted from her anchors, and went ashore on the beach at that place.
The smaller Yarmouth life-boat was soon launched, and proceeded to her through a heavy surf....
Nell and Jess
At 6.25 A.M. on the 29th December the watchman re- ported that the Lightship off Newhaven was firing distress signals; the Motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton was there- fore dispatched. It was blowing a strong N.N.W. gale at the time, and...
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, of Hastings and St. Leonards
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, who died on llth January, at the age of seventy-seven, was from the beginning of 1917 until towards the end of 1925 the Honorary Secretary of the Hastings Station, and he retired then on account of serious ill-health. He...
Category: Obituaries
Jane and Maid of Erin
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of April, 1950, the county police reported a message received from a returning fishing boat, that flares had been seen in Lune Deep about four miles west of Wyre Light.
Airy Fairy, Billy Whizz and Broadaxe
Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...