LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal Service at Torbay
EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...
Category: Services
The Curlew
AN INEXPERIENCED CREW Stromness, Orkneys.—At midnight on the 15th of July, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Curlew, of Kirkwall, had left Rousay at about nine o'clock for Kirk- wall but that nothing had been...
The S.S. Commandant Charles Meric
On the 1st March the s.s.
Commandant Charles Meric, of Bay- onne, ran aground on the Cross Sand while bound from the Tyne to Bordeaux with a cargo of coal. She carried a crew of thirty. There was very little wind, but the...
R Wright & Son
Something special ? Wright away sir! ,* !.
TANKS For almost half a century Wrights have specialised in the fabrication of tanks from 5 to 50,000 gallons in stainless steel, aluminium, or mild steel, either one-otf or on a...
Category: Advertisement
Fig 2: Looking Forward from the Transom
Fig. 2: Looking forward from the transom down the fast slipway lifeboat's starboard propeller tunnel. Further protection will be given to the propellers by deep bilge keels not yet fitted.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishing- cobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
FOWEY (POLKERRIS), CORNWALL. On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request...
Category: Services
A vintage legacy
Our lifesavers received a remarkable gift in May – two multi-million-pound Ferraris. Northampton businessman and RNLI supporter Richard Colton left his treasured sports cars to the RNLI in his Will, asking that money from their sale be used...
Category: Articles
Rainbow Flowers,
by POST from GUERNSEY for Birthdays, Thank-you's and Anniversaries CODfc CARNATIONS (mixed colours) OC10 10 Luxury• Carnation;- Special offer £9.95 C18 18 Luxury Camaiitins C24 2 1 Luxury Carnations £16,95 FREESIAS (mixed...
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Rnli National Lottery
THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be...
Category: Articles