LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Institution and the City of London
A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...
Category: Articles
March (1)
CARRADALE, ARGYLLSHIRE. At eleven in the morning of the 9th of December, 1943, the two motor fishing boats Betty and Irene, which work together, were at anchor in Carradale Bay, when their crews saw an aeroplane come down on the sea. A...
Category: Services
Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, of Bradford
Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, who died on 30th March, 1938, at the age of seventy-four, had been associated with the Institution's Bradford branch for seventeen years. He was its honorary treasurer and secretary from 1921 until 1932, and...
Category: Obituaries
Girl Jean
NEAR SPURNESS HOLMS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 1.5 p.m. on 16th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the lobster fishing boat Girl Jean of Kirkwall had broken down and was in difficulties near Spurness Holms, south-west of...
Floralie (1)
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
Garden Bird Supplies
Mini Thistle Feeder Pre-filled with .Vigyr Seed, a tin . Mack seed knmi'tt ax the 'goldfinch magnet"- nady to hang and just £6.95 for three! Woodville HangingTable just one QftaarSO-fttdtT range, this combines a stainless...
Category: Advertisement
Sarina
Yacht in shoal water RED FLARES were sighted to seaward south of the harbour by Lowestoft Coastguard on the morning of April 13.
The honorary secretary, informed at 0448, gave instructions for maroons to be fired and the...
(Far Left) Becky Rose
... and the staff enjoy themselves too! (far left) Becky Rose from Fundraising Supporter Services and her friend Jo Paterson sell lottery tickets. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Several Fishing Boats
A little before nightfall on the 29th September, several fishing- boats belonging to this place were over- taken by a heavy gale of wind. They were seen from the shore making for Craigenrow Bay, ten miles east of Buckie, where they took...
Easter Sailing By Giles
'Your wife nailing you and your boat up for Easter is hardly a case for calling in the RNLI.' by courtesy of the Daily Express, April 24, 1973, and Giles.
Category: Drawings