LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wherry Daniel Yorke
KAMSET, ISLE OF MAN.— The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at about 10.45 A.M. on the 31st October, signals of distress having been shown by a wherry which was riding heavily about three miles N.E. of the harbour during a whole gale from...
Charlotte and Flora
About 6.30 A.M. on the 20th February signals of distress were shown by some vessels at anchor in the roads. A heavy gale was blowing from the N.W. The Life-boat was launched, and boarded, first of all, the three-masted schooner Charlotte,...
Gift from Tasmania
THE Institution has received a gift of £100 from Tasmania for the benefit of the life-boat station at Southend- on-Sea. The donor's aunt lived in Southend for many years and was a contributor to the branch..
Category: Donations
Our Life-Boat Men
SEA-TITANS bold, with hearts that know not fear, Though wild waves billows rave, leap and clam'roua No care have they, nor thought of dangers near, When going forth, poor shipwrecked lives to save.
Through gulfs of...
Category: Poetry
Mary
Hythe, Kent.—At about 8.15 P.M. on the 23rd May, 1939, the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul. There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her engine...
Janis
BembridgB, Isle of Wight—At 2.29 on the afternoon of the 25th of May, 195.7, 'the Foreland- coastguard tele- phoned that ; the > yacht Janis, of Bosham, was making little headway a mile and a half south-west of Ventnor pier but was...
A Barge (1)
Youghal, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of November, 1960, the motor mechanic was told that a boat being used in the construction of the new bridge at Youghal was in difficulty and drifting seawards. The weather was cloudy,...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
The fishwives of Cullercoats last year collected £259. One fishwife, Mrs.
B. Mattison, alone collected over £258 of that total, a record sum for one collector; and the Institution has since had £ig from the R...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The...
Category: Articles
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