LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The New Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ONE of the first Life-boat Stations to be provided with, a Motor Life-boat was Stromness, in the Orkneys. It was in 1903 that a Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat was first converted to motor-power.
This Boat was followed by two...
Category: Inaugurations
Susan and Isabella, of Dundee
At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...
Marathon Cycle Ride:
Marathon cycle ride: Michael Redwood and Robert Williams, both aged 12, pedalled a magnificent 62 sponsored miles round the island of Guernsey to raise £60 for RNLI funds. In the picture the bovs are shown with lifeboat coxswain Peter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Listen very carefully. . . as Rene draws the lotteryGorden Kaye who stars as Rene in television's 'Allo 'Allo, drew the winning tickets of the 74th lifeboat lottery at Poole on 31 July 1996.
Brian Miles, RNLI...
Category: Articles
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Family and dogs snatched to safetyLyme Regis inshore lifeboat faced an unusual challenge on 31 July this year. They rescued six holidaymakers and their three dogs - one an eight stone Labrador with injured paws - who were in danger of being...
The S.S. Ganges, of Hull
On the 23rd Octo- ber, the S.S. Ganges, of Hull, was stranded on the Hasborough Sands during a strong wind and in hazy weather. The Birming- ham, No. 1 life-boat went off and remained by the vessel four nights, until she floated off the sand...
The Bravest Deeds of 1951
THE Maud Smith reward, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Alfred R. Wilson, of Margate, for going on board the yacht Girlanda in the darkness of the...
Category: Awards
Kate and Violet, of Bridlington
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 3.5 p.m.
on 6th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble had broken down one mile south west of the North Smithie buoy. The life-boat William Henry and...
Mrs. Talbot-Cadow, of Carlisle
MRS. W. TALBOT-CADOW, of Carlisle, died on the llth of February. She had been an active and successful honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for twenty-eight years. It was in 1923 that she became president of the Car- lisle and district...
Category: Obituaries
Southampton Boat Show September 13 to 18 Got Away to a Good Start on the First Day With the Presentation By Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of Three Cheques: £500 From
Southampton Boat Show, September 13 to 18, got away to a good start on the first day with the presentation by Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of three cheques: £500 from Cobramold Ltd, to mark the building of the 2,000th Leisure class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs