LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 4.25 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the police that cries for help had been heard coming from the sea half a mile east of the station.
At 4.30 the IRB launched on a...
Berthe Marie
Shortly before noon on the 7th December the coastguard reported that a schooner, anchored about three quarters of a mile from the shore, had parted one of her cables and was driving towards the land. The crew of the Life-boat Eichard and...
Three Bronze Medals for Welsh Crew
THREE members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans, another the mechanic, Sydney Fowler. The third is a police sergeant named...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th May, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Sheringham's Salvation
Sheringham's Salvation Worldwide leader of the Salvation Army, General Eva Burrows, visited Sheringham on 29 September for the centenary celebrations of the Sheringham Corps, and one of her calls was at the local lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The King Returns
Over 120 Elvis lookalikes, gangsters, Vegas girls, and other Vegas-style characters attended a glitzy Viva Las Vegas' RNLI fundraising party on 10 November at Fifteen 05 in central London. The evening included a star performance from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
Category: Branches
Naming Ceremonies
THIRTEEN new motor life-boats were named during 1952. Six were on the English coast, at Barrow-in-Furness, Clacton-on-Sea, Hoylake, Minehead, Padstow and Plymouth; four on the Scottish coast, at Aberdeen, Eyemouth, Gourdon and Whitehills;...
Category: Inaugurations
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1938
" Imagine that You are the Coxswain of a Life-boat. A Vessel is sending up Rockets of Distress. Describe the Rescue by Your Life-boat." THE essay competition in 1937, in which the writers were asked to imagine that they had...
Category: Articles
Nostalgia Direct
the essential Foster & Allen AVAILABLE NOW IN A SUPERB Enjoy the beautiful, relaxing music of Foster & Allen on this wonderful collection - reminisce to Maggie and A Bunch Of Thyme plus who can forget Old Flames and their chart...
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