LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary
BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—The lugger Mary, of Buckle, was taken off the beach, at about midnight on the 30th April, in order to proceed to Gluny Harbour to be fitted out for the west coast herring fishery. A whole gale suddenly sprung up from...
Ex-Coxswain John Watters
EX-COXSWAIN JOHN WAITERS Ex-coxswain John Watters died on 2nd September, 1965, aged 66. He had been coxswain of Fowey life-boat for more than 25 years and was awarded the RNLFs bronze medal for gallantry in 1947 f°r a difficult and...
Category: Obituaries
First Knight
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
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The Life-Boat Service In 1932
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 111 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 66 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1933 - 63,209 The Life-boat Service in 1932.
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Category: Articles
(Right) the Mass Start of a Mini Marathon Organised By Sodbury
(Right) The mass start of a mini marathon organised by Sodbury and District branch on September 27, 1981, when £3,000 was raised for the RNLI. A total of 329 runners ran the 15-mile course and enjoyed it so much that the marathon is to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ballot Box By Life-Boat
AFTER the general election in February, the ballot box from the island of Colonsay, off the west coast of Scotland, was brought to the mainland by the Islay life-boat. The cost was paid by the returning officer..
Category: Services
Volunteer
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AFTER ENGINE BREAKDOWN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.27 p.m. on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the Shoreham coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Volunteer, of Shoreham, was making distress...
April (1)
ANNAN WATERFOOT, DUMFRIES-SHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1943, a Beaufort aeroplane crashed and exploded in the Solway Firth, about half a mile south-east of Annan Waterfoot. The sea was calm, with a light westerly...
Category: Services
Gale Service In the Pentland Firth
AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...
Category: Services
Wireless Telegraphy
THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...
Category: Articles