LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Llfracombe Celebrated Its 150Th Anniversary With An Hour-Long Ceremony at the Lifeboat Station on the Pier on Saturday September 23 1978 When (Left) a Commemora
llfracombe celebrated its 150th anniversary with an hour-long ceremony at the lifeboat station on the pier on Saturday September 23, 1978, when (left) a commemorative vellum was presented by Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Watford
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey, was launched at 2.5 A.M. on 20th March, in a light N.W.
breeze, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that the s.s. Wafford, of London, was aground on Haisborough Sands. The...
A Greek Steamer
AUGUST 2 6TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A Greek steamer which had apparently been torpedoed was drifting about three miles out at sea, but she had been abandoned by her crew and was too large for the life-boat to attempt to...
Amelia, of Torquay
The Lowestoft life-boat also went out on the 3rd March, in reply- to signals of distress during a heavy N.N.W. gale, and brought safely ashore from the schooner Anna Louisa, of Rye, the crew of 8 men of the schooner Amelia, of Torquay,...
The Deputy Secretary
We have pleasure in announcing, for the information of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers, that the Deputy Secretary of the Institution, Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., who is on the Reserve of Regular Officers, has...
Category: Articles
40 Years of Service
STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...
Category: Committee
The Sailing Smack Challenger
On the 20th October the coastguard saw flares for help from the sailing smack Challenger, of Lowestoft, which, with a crew of four on board, was aground on the bank at the end of the north extension, and at 6.38 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Peterborough Trader, of London
FEBRUARY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At four in the afternoon the coxswain saw a vessel putting up distress rockets about two miles east-south-east of Peterhead, and at 4.25 the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
New Ways of Raising Money
RICHARD WAKELEY, aged 12, of Perm Cottage, Nore Road, Portishead, is probably the youngest editor of a nau- tical review to donate his sales profits to the Institution.
He writes, illustrates and distributes carbon copies...
Category: Donations