LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blue Peter Goes to Sea at Beaumaris By Ray Kipling
THE COAST OF NORTH WALES JS QUJCt at the beginning of April with the storms of winter mainly over and the summer still to come. The weather can change in a few moments from bright sunshine to strong hail storms which bombard the magnificent...
Category: Articles
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 1.15 in the afternoon the Holyhead coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed between the breakwater and the Skerries. A strong northwest wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea,...
Mona
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — On the night of the 6th August the yacht Mona, of Heswall, bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of three, was seen to be riding at anchor in a dangerous position about a mile out of Llandudno bay. A strong...
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1904.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
New Ways of Raising Money
Early last year the Kidderminster ladies' life-boat guild gave each member 5s.
and told them to increase it. In September it was reported that over £80 had been raised in this way.
The Little Ship...
Category: Donations
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...
Category: Services
The S.S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the-16th Feb- ruary last, the same life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress from the S. S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland, bound from that port to London with coals, which vessel had struck on the Middle Cross...
The Formby Light-Ship
DECEMBER 8TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 2.20 A.M. a message was received from the Dock Board Authorities that the Formby Light-ship had been in collision with an unknown vessel and was adrift. A fresh N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Basil George
MAY 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.20 in the afternoon the naval control reported the naval boat B a s i l George, with two men on board, ashore half a mile east of the pier, and asked that the life-boat should be launched. A very...
Your Letters
The North West Passage - who was first? I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West...
Category: Correspondence