LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Gladys
Moelfre, Angelsey. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a sailing boat had overturned in Red Wharf Bay. At 2.30 the life- boat Watkin Williams was launched in a choppy sea....
Dutch Honour for the Fishguard Crew
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...
Category: Awards
A watchful eye
Station volunteers foresaw disaster when seven adventurous children met the elements
Midday on 26 May was cold and blustery and Clogher Head Lifeboat Operations Manager Declan Levins was at the...
Category: Articles
Britannia, of Leigh
On the 20th October, during a gale from the E.S.E., the steamer Britannia, of Leith, was wrecked on " The Kidge," close to the bar of Holy Island Harbour.
The Britannia, had on board a number of passengers, and...
The Empire Mourns
NEVER probably in the history of our country has public feeling been so moved and sorrow so universally felt and ex- pressed as in the last few days, conse- quent on the almost sudden, and world- wide deplored death of the most beloved of...
Category: Articles
The Esthonian Steamer Mina
Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 21st December the Esthonian steamer Mina, of Parnu, got into difficulties through her rudder shaft breaking.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
The 'Loony Dook'
Over 40 hardy swimmers walked througth the streets of South Queensferry, led by a pipe band for the 11th annual 'Loony Dook' - swimming in the Firth of Forth on the 1 January-. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Lancashire
At about noon on the 3rd April the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a steamer appeared to be unmanageable.
Later she stranded on Spurn Point.
She was the s.s. Lancashire, of Sunder- land,...
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London District.
ACTON.—Address to Chiswick Brotherhood and Sisterhood by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management.
CARSHALTON.—Drawing-room Meeting at Wallington, given by...
Category: Branches
The House-Boat Petrina
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...