LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Ex-Admiralty Drifter
Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 2.4 p.m.
on 28th March, 1970, a report was received from the coastguard that a red flare had been sighted four miles north of Orlock point. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly slipped her moorings at...
John, of Hartlepool
On the 24th November, at 5'30 A.M., signals of distress were observed to ,the northward. A strong gale from the E.S,E. was blow- ing at the time, accompanied with rain.
The Winterton life-boat was launched, and with...
WAVING ANNIE GOODBYE
Wicklow lifeboat crew reflect on 30 years of lifesaving with the last of the Tyne class lifeboats – the Annie Blaker
In 1982, Dexy’s Midnight Runners got the world on the dancefloor. A little boy named William became third...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth May, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by Sir JOHN G. CUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., in the chair.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and the Hon.
George Colville were re-elected...
Category: Committee
J H Minet Life & Pensions Ltd
How to give your family £20,000 worth of security for only £2.00 a month.
About the only area where you really can't afford to cut costs is with your family's security.
What would happen,...
Category: Advertisement
Four Months of War
THE first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service.
Its crews have gone out to the rescue more often, and they have...
Category: Articles
A Noble Rescue
ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...
Category: Articles
Annasona
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.47 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore a quarter of a mile north-west of West Middle buoy. At 7.58 the life-boat Greater London II...
Swedish Journey
THIS is the story of a cruise among the islands of the West Coast of Sweden in August, 1950, by the ex Royal National life-boat Henry Frederick Swan, and her crew of Sea Scouts.
Henry Frederick Sivan, which is a 40 foot...
Category: Articles
Two Ships
OCTOBER 28TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Two ships had been reported in collision in Strathbeg Bay, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £14 18s. 6d..