LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 12.40 a.m. on ist January, 1966, the area commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade informed the honorary secretary that a doctor on Sark requested the lifeboat's assistance in transporting a sick child...
Economy and Willing Boys
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat which had engine trouble was sheltering near Reiss Sands and that a motor fishing vessel was stand- ing by. At 3.8...
On the Connection Between the Recent Gales of Wind and the Reading of the Barometer
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Newhaven, May 27, 1986 When Mrs Esme Anderson presented the 52ft Arun class lifeboat Keith Anderson to Newhaven on the afternoon of Tuesday May 27, she wanted everyone at the ceremony to know a little about her late husband, whose name she...
Category: Inaugurations
Lines Written for "The Daniel J. Draper" Life-Boat
HE died at his post as a man should die, That Christian true and brave, Leading the way to the realms on high, Through the jaws of an ocean-grave! He served one Master, and that dear Lord Was with him that awful day, When the London...
Category: Poetry
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1975
Aldeburgh, Suffolk July 19.
Amble, Northumberland July 21.
Angle, Dyfed June 13, July 11, 21, 31 and August 6.
Anstruther, Tayside August 2.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow July 15,...
Category: Services
The Gratitude of Yachtsmen
ON the 25th of August, 1951, the Wicklow life-boat towed in the yacht Desina which had lost her rudder in heavy seas. One of the yacht's crew wrote to the coxswain: "On behalf of the two other crew members and myself, I wish to...
Category: Correspondence
St. Helier Service to the Maurice Georges, 13th-14th September, 1949
Scale: 1 3/4 inches to the mile.
Category: Charts
Forest Row Choir Named at Shoreham
Forest Row Choir named at Shoreham The second D class lifeboat funded by the Forest Row lifeboat choir was named and dedicated by Dorothy Rumens, choir member, on 31 August 1996 Some 200 people attended the ceremony at Shoreham, including 50... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ros Sennan
Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.40 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961.
the coxswain learnt that a motor fishing boat was on the Wolves rocks three miles south-south-west of Wicklow Head and was in immediate danger. At 8.50,...