LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Best Essay
By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.
I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...
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Chairman's Message
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., sent the following message: 'On behalf of the Committee of Management, I would like to thank you all for the truly magnificent way in which you responded to...
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News
Swords of honour Phenomenal, unselfish, generous - just some of the words used by Irish President Mary McAleese on her recent visit to the RNLIThe RNLI has 43 lifeboat stations in the island of Ireland to support, from Lough Swilly in...
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Sir William Corry, Bt
BY the death on 9th June last, in his 68th year, of Sir William Corry, Bt., one of the Directors of the Cunard Line and the Dominion and Commonwealth Line, the Institution lost a friend who for many years had given it the help and advice of...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
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April
APRIL Launches 53. Lives rescued 40.
APRIL 1ST. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a ship’s lifeboat needed help. A moderate W.S.W. wind was...
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A Fishing Vessel
Power cut In winds of force 10-12, heavy squalls and seas of 8-1 Om, the Portpatrick lifeboat Mary Irene Millar launched to a fishing vessel with electrical failure. It was 12.55am on 8 January. Over two hours later, the lifeboat found the...
The S.S. Roldal
GORLESTON.—Sockets and guns were fired by the Cockle and Middle Cross Sand and St. Nicholas Light-vessels, oa the morning of the 7th November. A strong gale was then blowing from S.W.
by S., the sea was very heavy and the...
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—On the 10th February it was reported that a man on the island of St. Martin's was seriously ill, and in urgent need of medical attention. Two doctors, both members of the local committee at St. Mary's...