LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shamrock, of Wexford
On the 9th April the same life-boat again put off to the smack Shamrock, of Wexford, which was totally wrecked during a very strong easterly wind on the north end of the Dogger Bank. The life-boat was placed as near as possible, and the crew...
From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Jamaica Progress
AU G U S T 1 S T . - B A R R A I S L A N D , HEBRIDES. At 2.30 A.M. a telegram was received from the coastguard at Kyle that a ship’s boat under sail with men on board had been seen at 9.30 P.M. the night before, five miles from Barra Head....
The S.S. Kentwood
MARCH 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 12.15 A.M., the Great Yarmouth Naval Base requested the services of a life-boat for a vessel ashore at Walcot Gap, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 12.35 A.M. A...
The Love(Life)Boat
On 20 March newly weds Anthony and Cherie Summers of Holyhead got the surprise of their life when they left the church to find that their traditional Rolls Royce had been replaced by Trearddur Bay lifeboat, Dorothy Selina.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cassandra, of Liverpool
Again, on that day, during a gale from the W.N.W., the barque Cassandra, of Liverpool, was wrecked in Compton Bay, near this Life- boat Station, while on a voyage to the Thames from Madras. The Life-boat George and Anne was taken to the Bay,...
The Life-Boat Journal
The Life-boat appears again after an absence of just seven years. Its last number was dated April, 1940. In that month Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. At the end of the next month the British Expeditionary Fotce was brought off from the...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Fishing Boat Morag
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.14 on the morning of the 19th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seentwo to three miles off Lade. At 2.35 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched two hours after...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. — The Com- missioners of Irish Lights asked if thelife-boat would take relief men to the Coningbeg Lightvessel as their own boats were unavailable, and at ten o'clock on the morning of the 31st of March, 1952, the...
Swindon's Flag Week Collections Lottery and Souvenir Sales Raised £103681 During the Week In April a Mercantile Credit Co Window Display Featured a Scale Model Li
Swindon's flag week collections, lottery and souvenir sales raised £1,036.81. During the week, in April, a Mercantile Credit Co window display featured a scale model lifeboat made by the late Ken Hemmings, who had been a branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs