LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

During a strong gale from the N.W., on the 11th November, the schooner Margaret Caldwell, of Port- rush, was at anchor in the Skerries Roads, when the barque Convert, of Londonderry, running for the same anchorage, got foul of her, and...

Angling launch THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Beaumaris lifeboat station was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 1220 on Sunday December 13, 1981, that the 35ft angling launch Wygyr was in difficulties and needed urgent assistance off Puffin Island...

OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS Shoreline has taken great strides forward. Our membership has grown faster than ever before, largely due to the support we are receiving from our members and, above all, from financial branches and guilds. We...

THE hundredth anniversary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Criccieth in Caernarvonshire was cele- brated at a dinner held at Criccieth on the 14th of October, 1960. The Lord- Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire, Sir Michael Duff,...

Mr. Thomas Orrell Gray, O.B.E., J.P., who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1935, died on the 7th May, 1961. He had served on the Finance, General Pur- poses, and Establishment Committees of the Institution, became...

THE COASTGUARD informed New Quay honorary secretary at 1740 on July 30, 1974, that a small motor boat had been seen drifting towards the rocks about half a mile north of Trwyn-Croi, some four miles south of the station. Three minutes later...

In this issue News 2 Letters 9 Feature From saving goals to saving lives 10 A football tournament on Bournemouth beach in the summer kicked off a fun day of fundraising 14 Lifeboats in action Amazing rescues - including accounts of one...

How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.

And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...