LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catherine and Margaret
The schooner Catherine and Margaret, of Portmadoc, was at anchor on the llth March, in Porthdinllaen Bay, when in the prevailing N.N.W. gale her anchors commenced to drag. Signals of distress were made, and the Life-boat Barbara Fleming was...
Annual Awards 1975
The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving in 1975 has been awarded to Coxswain/Mechanic David Kennett of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, for the rescue on September 14 of the crew of five of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour. Coxswain...
Category: Awards
Mr. Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P.
By the death on 4th March of Mr.
Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Worthing, a Vice-President of the Institution, the Life-boat Service has lost its oldest and one of its most loyal and distinguished friends. Mr....
Category: Obituaries
WHAT’S ON
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LIFEBOAT DAYS
Your chance to get up close to the...
Category: Articles
Review
' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.
12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• Medical Aid at Accidents, by Roger Snook, MD (Update Publications, £5.75) is probably the only comprehensive book on the subject and covers all types of incident from under water to mountain top, though naturally the accent is on road...
Category: Articles
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
Wellington
PLYMOUTH and YEALM RIVER.—On the night of the 28th of January the Plymouth Life-boat Clemency and the Yealm River Life-boat Bowman went out in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Wellington, of Windsor, N.S. The wind was blowing...
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? IF you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to Fund the RINLI with every transaction you make.
Category: Advertisement
Ceremonies
Relief fleet D class A new D class lifeboat provided by the patrons of the Fox & Hounds public house in Surbiton was handed over to the RNLI in Poole on 4 February 1989.
Some of the patrons were present when Mr Vic...
Category: Inaugurations