LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
In all respects ready for sea I was interested to read the article on survey and maintenance of the offshore fleet in the autumn edition of THE LIFEBOAT. Certainly the work involved in the various surveys is enormous, and it is useful to...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Harmonia, of Hamburg
Again, on the 7th December the same life-boat went off and saved the crew of 15 men from the S.S. Harmonia, of Hamburg, which was totally wrecked on a sandbank near Brancaster. There was a heavy gale blowing from the N.E., and a high sea run...
The Fundraisers
Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
Category: Articles
Presentation of a Gold Medal
THE Gold Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is a much- coveted distinction, only bestowed for deeds of exceptional valour, was awarded in April to the REVEREND JOHN M. O'SHEA, parish priest of Ardmore, Co. Waterford...
Category: Medals
The S.S. Valborg, of Copenhagen
NOVEMBER 27TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL,.
At 7.30 at night the S.S. Valborg, of Copenhagen, which was off the harbour, signalled on her siren for a pilot. A fresh south-southwest gale was blowing, with a rough...
Britannia V and Windsor Rose
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the early part of the evening of the 23rd of Sep- tember, 1957, the weather was becom- ing steadily worse, and as there were several local fishing boats at sea the no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched at seven...
Mrs. Adam Maitland, of Aberdeen
Mrs. Adam Maitland, who died on 5th October, was the founder of the Aberdeen Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and was chiefly responsible, with Mrs.
D. M. Kilgour, now its president, for making it one of the most successful in...
Category: Obituaries
The Duchess of Kent at the Depot (1)
THE Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood on the 9th of November. She was received by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the committee of management, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown,...
Category: Committee
Real-life trial
A brand new, state-of-the-art lifeboat arrived at Appledore station at the end of March but she was saving lives weeks before while on trials off the south Devon coast.
During sea trials, in force 6–7 winds, a mayday call...
Category: Articles