LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Dawn
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 6.30 p.m. on 2nd June, 1967, news was received that the ketch Sea Dawn had engine failure 14 miles north west of the Corsewall lighthouse. The life-boat The Jeanie slipped her moorings at 6.59 in a gentle...
Norcin
ANOTHER ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 19th of November, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen two miles north-north-east iof the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
Saga
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Inaugural Ceremonies: Scotland
FIVE Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place in Scotland during the past summer, at Girvan, Port Patrick and Kirkcudbright on the West Coast, and Cromarty and Dunbar on the East Coast. At the first four of these Cere- monies the Duke of...
Category: Inaugurations
RNLI in vision
Our charity has featured in a host of TV shows recently – which, as well as making good viewing, helps to raise vital support to help save lives at sea.
In October, ITV broadcast The Pride of Britain awards, and millions...
Category: Articles
Notes and News
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
This present number of The Life-Boat, the 280th, is the last but one which will be published in the first century of the Institution's history. When the text...
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A Bronze-Medal Service at Longhope
AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...
Category: Services
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Snapper
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about noon on the 22nd January, 1939, information was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in diffi-culties off Boscombe Pier. A S...