LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new sailing-boat of the improved Norfolk and Suffolk type for South wold, in the place of a boat stationed there many years since. It is 44 feet long and...
Category: Articles
Christine
SEEN FROM TRAIN Wicklow. At 12.45 a-m- on 25tn October, 1963, a driver of a train bound from Dublin to Wexford saw flares and a flashing light at sea a few miles north of Wicklow. He made an unscheduled stop, cut the engine and made his way...
London
SCARBOBOTTGH.—The schooner London, of Hastings, bound from Hartlepool to Eye with coal, was seen making for the harbour, with only her fore staysail set, and with a signal of distress flying, at 9 A.M. on the 12th December, during a heavy...
A Small Launch
FEBRUARY 15TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
The naval authorities reported to the life-boat station that at nine o’clock the previous evening a small launch had left the naval pier. Anxiety was felt for the safety of the officer...
Shall I Pack It Up for You Madam?'
'Shall I pack it up for you, madam?' Two-yearold Sarah Hawley, youngest regular helper at Morecambe branch's souvenir stall which is run by Mrs I. Binnie, Mrs J. Terry and Mr H.
Ingham. In two years the stall... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'We were in trouble ...'
When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard
Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...
Category: Articles
Plymouth Exhibition
The international lifeboat exhibition, which as reported in the July issue of THE LIFEBOAT is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, will run from July 20 to August 31,1974, and not from July 14 to September 10 as...
Category: Correspondence
Lead Us and Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1952, the coastguard reported that a local fishing vessel was making heavy weather as she approached the har- bour, and at 12.50 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
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Human chain THE POLICE informed the honorary secretary of Rye Harbour ILB station at 1458 on Sunday, July 4, that three children had been trapped by the tide off the central car park, Camber.
There was a gentle...
The Weymouth Crabber Kael Coz
Four saved from grounded crabber In a letter from the chief of operations, Padstow lifeboat crew has been praised for a service which 'was carried out in dangerous conditions' and which 'called upon each of the crew's...