LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Lancaster Aeroplane
JULY 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 4.40 in the morning, a message was received from the coastguard that it was thought that a Lancaster aeroplane was down in the sea about six miles from Anderby Creek. A light...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
ROSSLARE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 14th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W., a vessel was seen making for Wexford Harbour with ensign flying half-mast high. At the entrance of the harbour the vessel missed stays, and her only remaining...
Category: Services
Mrs Hutchings' Scrapbooks
IN the early hours of 24th March, 1964, the Sennen Cove life-boat Susan Ashley rescued the crew of the French trawler Victoire Roger from under the cliffs at Land's End. The coxswain was awarded a bronze second service clasp for...
Category: Articles
Coastal Life
COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...
Category: Articles
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums at Dover, and at Wexford and Rosslare Harbour
Two life - boat stations celebrated their centenaries in 1938: Dover, Kent, and Wexford and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. In each case a vellum was presented by the Institu- tion, signed by the H.R.H. Duke of Kent, K.G., as President,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Kernoozer
MARCH 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
About 12.35 in the morning a message came from the Bridlington coastguard that distress rockets had been seen at Hornsea, eleven miles south of Bridlington, and at 1 A.M. the motor...
Man the Life-Boat
WHAT task on earth can man perform More noble or more brave, Than risk his days, and all he hath, Another's life to save ? Yet thanks to Him who rules above, Such men are to be found, 'Mong whom the sturdy Life-boat crews That watch...
Category: Poetry
A Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the police informed the coxswain that a man was clinging to an upturned dinghy five hundred yards from the shore and two miles north of Skegness pier. The life-boat...
Homeland
SunderJand, Co. Durham - At 2.31 p.m. on 4th July, 1969, the coastguard told the second coxswain that a fishing boat was flying distress signals about two and a half miles off Sunderland. The life-boat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers was...
Miss Mitzy
St. Helier, Jersey - At 10.3 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, air traffic control informed the assistant honorary secretary that an aircraft had sighted a yacht which was firing red flares to the north of the island. The lifeboat Elizabeth Rippon...