LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough
Another old and most valued friend of the Institution, Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough, passed away on 24th January. Miss Swallow had been a Life-boat worker for thirty years, first as Honorary Secretary of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund,...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Honorary Workers
Silver Inkstand.
A SILVER INKSTAND, suitably inscribed, has been awarded to Mr. GEORGE WARD, who for fifty years has been associated with the Birmingham Branch, first as a member of the committee, then honorary secretary,...
Category: Awards
Formby from Opposite Page
'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...
Category: Articles
Wreck and Rescue In the Bristol Channel
Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel by Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 305.) tells in the first of two volumes the story of the English life- boats in those waters.
Of the life-boat stations detailed in...
Category: Articles
RNLI FAMILY: Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Tying the knot
Congratulations to Bundoran Crew Members Laura McNulty and Richard Gillespie, who got married in July. Lifeboating must be in their blood, because both Laura and Richard have family on the crew. Laura’s dad,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Saturday Movement
SINCE the publication of the last number of our quarterly journal this popular movement has been extending its ope- rations north, south, east and west with marked success, and wherever a Life-boat Saturday demonstration or collection has...
Category: Articles
The S.S. J. Duncan
The s.s. J. Duncan, of Cardiff, whilst bound from that port to Devonport with a cargo of coal, stranded on the rocks at Tol Pedn, Penwith, during a thick fog on the morning of the 14th August.
The casualty was reported at...
Sunbeam
On returning to port at about 9 P.M. on the 4th January a drifter reported that another drifter, Sunbeam, belonging to Torquay, but fishing from Brixham, had asked her to stand by, as her engine had failed.
The Sunbeam was...
Exchequer
A TRAWLER ASHORE Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, a vessel was reported ashore at Lackie Head, near Kinnaird Head, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched two minutes...
Calvor Forayar, of Thorshavn
JULY 26TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.55 at night the coastguard reported that a fishing boat had burnt a flare one mile south-east-by-east of Wick, and at 11.35 the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a...