LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT LIFE-BOATMEN
Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth, has close contacts with the R.N.L.I., and when an essay competition on life-boatmen was held for members of the junior church there was a good response.
The following are extracts: 'The...
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Eleanor, of New Quay
The schooner Eleanor, of New Quay, Cardiganshire, .was seen on the Constable Bank, off Rhyl, on the evening of the 2nd June, with a signal of distress flying. The tubular Life-boat Morgan was launched as soon as practicable to her assistance...
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MARCH 25TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. On March 17th a doctor telephoned to the station to ask if the life-boat would be available to bring from the Island of Fouls to the mainland a woman who was expecting a baby.
A strong breeze...
Education of Seamen, and Marine Schools
THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...
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Edward Stonard, of Lancaster
On the 24th Jan- uary, during a storm from the S.W., the schooner Edward Stonard, of Lancaster, lost her main-boom, fore-gaff, and all sails except mainsail (which was split), and the master was obliged to run her ashore to the west- ward of...
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1963 has been won by Mechanic Joseph Houlihan of Valentia for the rescue single-handed of two men on 2nd September. A full account of the service...
Category: Awards
Volant, of Kirkwall
JUNE 18TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At nine in the evening the coastguard reported a schooner flying the N.C. distress signal one and a half miles west-south-west of South Stack. The sea was smooth, with a light variable wind...
The Fund Raisers
Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
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Ministry of Transport Award
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the Ministry's shield for the best rescue service of the year to the Collieston (Aberdeen) Coast Life-saving Company for the rescue by breeches buoy of the...
Category: Awards
Princess of Thule
During foggy weather on the 25th May the schooner Princess of Thule, of Chester, bound from London to Liverpool, stranded on the Fish Rock, Treaddur Bay. At 4.30 A.M. the Life-boat Ramon Cabrera was launched to assist her, but just as she...