LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
In brief BRANCHES in North Wales had a busy Summer - Holyhead ladies raised £1,200 from the sale souvenirs and Volvo draw tickets at the Anglesey show; Llandudno branch raised £1,150 from collection boxes and souvenirs at an...
Category: Articles
Mountblairy, of Plymouth
Rosslare Harbour (Co. Wexford).
On the 20th October, the schooner Mountblairy, of Plymouth, was driven ashore about five miles from Rosslare Harbour in a whole gale, with a very heavy sea running. She lay surrounded by...
ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
MAYDAY AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH
The lives of six fishermen are in danger. Their fishing boat is drifting dangerously close to shore. Powerless against the gale-force winds and sea swell, they need help – fast
It’s the end of a blustery October day in...
Category: Articles
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up duty: All-weather Ballyglass - Severn 17-15 (ON 1235) Bryan and Gordon on 14 August Stromness-Severn 17-16 (ON1236) Violet Dorothy and Kathleen on 22 October Holyhead- Arun 52-37 Kenneth...
Category: Articles
Westward Ho!
Our summer break at Littlehampton was a little longer than anticipated perhaps due to a reluctance to depart before there was some progress to report on the new boathouse project. It is now some two years since discussions started on the...
Category: Articles
Jenny
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1956, the police rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that flares had been seen from a vessel about three miles off shore near Hilbre Island. The coxswain kept the vessel...
H.M. Minesweeper Susette
DEC. 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 5.30 P.M. a message was received that H.M. Minesweeper Susette had gone aground on North Beach and was making signals of distress A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing and she had missed the...
New Life-Boathouse at Southend-On-Sea
IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...
Category: Inaugurations
Daramis
On the morning of the 18th July the small yacht Damaris, of Lowestoft, left Southwold, with two men aboard, intending to run to Lowestoft, but found the wind and sea too much for her. She tried twice to return to Southwold but failed, and...