LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Importance of the System of Electrical Communication Established on the Coast for Life-Saving Purposes
IN 1889 Mr. EGBERT BAYLY, of Torr Grove, Ply month, a member of the Local Committee of the Port of Plymouth Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, published, with the sanction of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, of which he...
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Membership News
Every little extra helps - covenants explained One of the messages we are constantly trying to put across is that all members should consider 'covenanting' their membership subscription.
Undoubtedly, the vast...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Your Letters
A special thank you They say that just before you die, your whole life passes before you. At the age of eight you haven't had much of a life so when you come close to 'it', you really can recall everything.
My...
Category: Correspondence
Dutch Honour for the Fishguard Crew
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...
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Two Meteor Aeroplanes
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. — At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned a report from the R.A.F.
station at Uxbridge that two Meteor aeroplanes had...
Helge
Hoylake, Cheshire. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1959.
the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties four miles north of Hilbre Island. Further messages re-...
Southwards and Westwards
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.37 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the vessel Drop- ford was towing the fishing vessel Southwards, which had engine trouble, towards Morecambe...
Linda
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, when the life-boat crew were in the boathouse after an exercise, the coxswain received a report from the owner of the fishing boat Linda that he had lent the boat to...
Dulcet Bella and Troglodyte
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with three boys aboard was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Glasgow, on temporary...