LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1959, thecoastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off St.
Mary's Bay and that a child was...
Portrait on the Cover
Tim portrait on the -cover is of Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, who retired in January after serving for fifteen years as an officer of the life-boat. He had been coxswain for nearly six years. He won the silver medal for...
Category: Articles
Maracove
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At i .45 a.m. on 27th December, 1965, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, notified the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Maracove of New York, on passage to Rotterdam, had requested that the...
Patrick Carter
For 25 years we were a small branch but since the establishment of Sligo Bay lifeboat, four years ago, activities and financial results have expanded dramatically. We are busy with current and planned events, and are delighted with our... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (2)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St. Helier, Jersey.—2nd February, 1938. A report had been received that a French military aeroplane had been forced down sea, but later it was learned that the plane was safe. The St. Peter Port motor life-boat...
Income and Expenditure for 1934
Expenditure.
£ s. d.
s. d.
32,778 19 11 100 12 5 13,513 11 9 406 1 6 10,707 17 3,321 13 459 17 245 10 61,534 3 8 New Life-boats for the following stations :—On...
Category: Accounts
A Disaster at Arbroath
EARLY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.
About seven in the morning the wind shifted, and by 9.30 it was blowing...
Category: Services
The S.S. Rubaan
DE C . 1 6 T H . - THE LIZARD CORNWALL.
The S.S. Rubaan, of Glasgow, struck the rocks a mile S.W. of The Lizard. A strong E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 1.45 A.M. the motor lifeboat Duke of York was...
A Dinghy (3)
New Brighton, Cheshire - At noon on 28th September, 1969, it was learnt that a dinghy was in difficulties off the Derby bathing pool. The lifeboat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 12.13 in a near gale force westerly wind with a...
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Brigadier-General NOEL M. LAKE, C.B., in recognition of his distinguished services as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment from 1916 to 1926, a Vellum recording his election as an Honorary Life-Governor of the...
Category: Awards