LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Happy People: Rescued Two and Saved Boat
TWO MEN had been spending Sunday January 16 fishing off the western end of the Isle of Wight in an open 17ft dory. When, at 1530, they started to prepare for the return passage to Poole, their outboard engine failed. They were reported...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was...
Category: Services
Maria
KESSINGLAND.—At 1 P.M. on the 14th October the brig Maria, of and from Hartlepool, bound to London with coal, having struck on Covehitheness Point, and being in a sinking condition, made signals of distress, and ran on shore on the beach,...
Prize Winning Essay
Miss BRIDGET MCHALE, of West Nor- folk and King's Lynn High School for Girls, King's Lynn, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution.
Other...
Category: Articles
The Lighthouse
THREE months at sea, and one on shore; Three months at sea—yet not afloat j Around our home the breakers roar, Yet own we neither ship nor boat.
Rock-based, amid the swirl of foam, The lighthouse stands—it is our...
Category: Poetry
Ten Hours of Non-Stop Magic
Ten hours of non-stop magic at the Moat House Hotel in Liverpool conjured up £1,800 for New Brighton lifeboat station last October.
Twenty members of the Mahatma Magic Circle, three of whom are pictured here (I to r)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (2)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 11.20 on the morning of the 9th July, 1961, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize about a mile east of the Little Orme and that two men were clinging to...
A Rowing Boat
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 11.55 on the morning of the 4th of October, 1959, the motor mechanic told the second coxswain that a rowing boat with four men aboard was in difficulties off Great Ormes Head. The life-boat Annie...
Victory
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At about 9.30 P.M. on the 12th August, 1938, information was received from the lighthouse, through the signal station,that a boat close under the cliffs was in need of help. AN.E. wind was blowing and the sea was...