LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Admiralty Trawlers
DECEMBER 8TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At 5.15 in the evening the coastguard at Usan reported that four Admiralty trawlers were being bombed by enemy aeroplanes two miles to the S.E., and the motor life-boat The Good Hope put out...
Our Nautical Aptitudes
AT the dispersion of the children of Israel in the land of Canaan, it had been predicted by Moses that Zebulon would dwell upon the coast, and suck of the abundance of the seas. Thus the tribe of Zebulon became a purely mercantile and...
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Dorothy
LINE FIRED TO FISHING BOAT AGROUND Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.56 early on the morning of the 19th July, 1962, the coastguard at Spurn Point informed the coxswain superintendent that red flares had been seen between a mile and two miles east of...
As reported in the September Issue of the Life-Boat, T.V. Announcer Guy Thomas, on Behalf of T.W.W. Ltd., Presented a Television Set to the Crew of 70-001 When She Visited Bristol Earlier This Year
As reported in the September issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, T.V. announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the crew of 70-001 when she visited Bristol earlier this... - View image in PDF
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Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, visited lifeboat stations at Barrow, Morecambe, Fleetwood, Blackpool and Lytham-St Anne's on Wednesday April 27. At each station he inspected the lifeboat and met lifeboatmen, station... - View image in PDF
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Members of Northampton Ladies' Guild Man the Refreshment Stall at a Market Organised By the Branch at the End of Last Year Held In the Town's Guildhall the Event Rai
Members of Northampton ladies' guild man the refreshment stall at a market organised by the branch at the end of last year. Held in the town's Guildhall the event raised £535.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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(Right) the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli at the Banqueting House Reception With (I to R) Mrs Siler Admiral Owen W Siler Commandant of the Us Coast Gua
(Right) The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, at the Banqueting House reception with (I. to r.) Mrs Siler, Admiral Owen W. Siler, Commandant of the US Coast Guard, and Dr L. Shackleton Fergus, a member of the appeal committee. (Above)... - View image in PDF
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Prize-Winning Essay
For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...
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Sincerity
Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...
Gloamin N.
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 26th of January, 1956, the weather became worse while the local fishing boat Gloamin N, which had a crew of four, was still at sea.
At 10.10 the life-boat Tillie Morrison,...