LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (47)
APRIL 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.41 A.M. a message was received from the St. Agnes coastguard that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles N.E. by N. from Portreath, and at 7.38 A.M. the...
People and Places
Record draw The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.
Andrew...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-second Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, March 29th, 1916, at 3.30 P.M. The Eight Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, P.O.,...
Category: Meetings
Magna, of Helsingborg
OCTOBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.25 in the morning the Deal coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a vessel ashore on the Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles...
Queen of Scots
LOCH NEVIS SEARCH Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 3.45 p.m. on i6th November, 1964, the wife of the owner of the motor launch Queen of Scots told the honorary secretary that the launch was overdue from a trip to Inverie.
The...
Star of Meavagh
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6.30 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1957, the fishing vessel Star of Meavagh, of Skibbereen, skippered by the honorary secretary, had not arrived in the har- bour as expected. The honorary sec- retary's wife,...
Les Abbot
JANUARY 1995 Les Abbot, chairman of Long Eaton branch from 1980 until his death. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1991..
Category: Obituaries
An Ill-Fated Ship
IN the last number of The Lifeboat was published an article on the Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, the two families in that little fishing village from which are drawn the greater part of the Crew of the Boulmer...
Category: Articles
Miss D Mann
December 1987 Miss D Mann, chairman of the Ampthill and District branch since 1973. She was a founder member of the branch and from 1929 to 1973 was flag day organiser. Miss Mann was awarded a record of thanks in 1953 and a gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries
A Trawler
Peterhead, Aberdeen.—16th January, 1939. A trawler had run ashore on the Scaurs of Cruden, but she was refloated and taken in tow for Aberdeen by another trawler. Unfortunately she had been damaged and on her way to Aberdeen she foundered...