LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Elizabeth Wiles,
Mrs Elizabeth Wiles, founder chairman of the Louth branch.
Mrs Wiles founded the branch in 1970 and was awarded the Silver badge in 1986 upon her retirement as chairman. She continued to organise Louth flag days andreceived...
Category: Obituaries
Film Opportunity
The Industrial Life Offices Association have made a film about life insurance and there will be 500 showings during the winter to audiences such as women's institutes, community associations, church and chapel social groups and so on.<...
Category: Articles
(Right) Proves Itself Fully Waterproof
and (right) proves itself fully waterproof. - View image in PDF
While on exercise the new tractor has itself already rescued two young people and their dog cut off by the tide.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Billy Boy Annie
About 12.20 P.M. on the 10th February the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat observed the Billy-boy Annie, of Grimsby, being towed over the bar outward bound, when the tow-rope suddenly broke and the Billy- boy drifted rapidly towards the North...
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (3)
On the 10th October, 1939, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Saltaire, of Grimsby. Later the men returned to their ship, with the owner’s agent, and seven were rescued a second time by the life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Warren Field
Margate, Kent.— At 7.49 on the night of the 28th of January, 1951, the coastguard telephoned news from North Foreland Radio that a ship was aground on the east end of Margate Spit Sands. She was the S.S. Warren Field, of Liverpool,, on...
Lily (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 10.15 p.m. on i5th July, 1966, news was received that the m.f.v.
Lily had been towed from about 11 miles west of the Bar lightvessel by the Bar pilot boat and handed over to...
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Category: Advertisement
Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards