LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helping God.
One of the gifts in answer to Coxswain Blogg'e appeal came with this letter: I am sending my pocket money to you this weeki so that you can help God to keep Bobby and John safe and all tie other children's Daddies safe. Love....
Category: Articles
A Seafire Aircraft (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
The "Princess Victoria" Life-Boat Tractor
IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...
Category: Inaugurations
Fides
LOWESTOFT.—On the evening of the 19th March, at about 8 o'clock, the schooner J%fcs, of Nyborg, Denmark, bound from Newcastle to Kgueira, with a cargo of coal, while riding ia the roads began to drive, aad at 9 o'clock, the coxswain...
Six Men Lost from Rowing Boat
ALBERT COTTIER, assistant motor mechanic of the Ramsey (Isle of Man) life-boat station, lost his life, together with five other men when a rowing boat capsized on the 8th of March, 1956. An unsuccessful search by the Ramsey life-boat was...
Category: Obituaries
Lovers at Last
Macduff Helmsman Colin Duthie, married his sweetheart, Lorraine McKay, in November with the station's lifeboat as a backdrop for the wedding pictures.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Penlee Life-Boat Alongside the Ems Ore in Mounts Bay, Penzance, when in Early October, 1966, the Vessel Put Out an SOS Following 'a Night of Violence by Some Members of her Crew'
The Penlee life-boat alongside the Ems Ore in Mounts Bay, Penzance, when in early October, 1966, the vessel put out an SOS following 'a night of violence by some members of her crew'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grace Darling
1 Grace Darling and Her Times." By Constance Smedley. With a Foreword by Commander Stephen King-Hall. (Hurst & Blackett. 18s. net.) THE news of the great exploit of William Darling, keeper of the Long- stone Lighthouse,...
Category: Articles
Frank Kilroy. In His Other Role As Curator of the Lytham Lifeboat Museum
Frank Kilroy. in his other role as curator of the Lytham lifeboat museum, explains to HRH The Duke of Kent about the display of artefacts from the wreck of the Mexico. - View image in PDF
Picture: Peier Owen/Creative. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th March, 1928.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution : Miss A. Hall (additional donation) . . £50 To be...
Category: Committee