LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gleaner, of Milford
On the 30th October, at 3 P.M., the schooner Gleaner, of Milford, •was "wrecked beneath Clay Castle, near the entrance of Youghal Harbour. It was blowing a heavy gale at S. The Life-boat William Beckett of Leeds was launched at 3.45,...
New Ways of Raising Money
Following the success of last year's exhibition at the Templars Secondary School in Stepney an even more impressive show was put on this year, to coincide with London Life-boat Day. Pride of place was given to an I.R.B. Other exhibits...
Category: Donations
Earn of Fraserburgh
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Arbroath, Angus. At 8.53 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a fishing vessel was firing distress rockets two miles off Auchmithie.
Within...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Second Coxswain Cuthbert Cornall, of Black- pool, who was appointed at the begin- ning of 1917..
Category: Articles
The Old Boathouse
with the motor life-boal Henry Frederick Swan, on her trolley at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Communication By Electric Telegraph and Signals on the Coast
BY the wreck of the Deutschland, the question of better means of communica- tion between outlying stations on the coasts of the United Kingdom and internal bases of supply, has received one more little jog forward into its inevitable ulti-...
Category: Articles
(Left) Abersoch: the Atlantic 21 Ilb Her Tractor and Boathouse Were A/I Provided By the People of Wolverhampton
(Left) Abersoch: The Atlantic 21 ILB, her tractor and boathouse were a/I provided by the people of Wolverhampton.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Window of Faith
Window of faith church members are also very proud of the stained glass lifeboat window which was installed during the reconstruction of the church in 1956 after war damage.
It was therefore in August last year that the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Guests of Honour:
Guests of honour: several lifeboatmen were among the guests at a special Variety Club of Great Britain lunch at London's Hilton Hotel in December, to honour HRH The Duke of Kent, the heroes of the lifeboat service and leading members of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ronachan, of Glasgow
On the 18th Jan. intelligence was received at the Isle of Whithorn that a large threes-masted vessel was at anchor in Luce Bay, in a position of some peril. The Charlie Peek Life-boat was thereupon quickly launched through a heavy sea, and,...