LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bishop's Comment on the Life-Boat Service
THE Bishop of St. David's, the Right Reverend John Richards, gave an address from the bandstand at Aberyst- wyth on the 9th May, 1962, in which he said: "No organisation in the whole of our history has revealed more truly the spirit...
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People and Places
There ain't nothing like a ... cheque!Gemma Craven, starring in the West End musical 'South Pacific' at the Bournemouth Pavilion during the summer, drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 46th national lottery, which took...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Georgio
Nov. 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
It was eight at night when the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched to the help of a foreign steamer, the Georgios, of Piraeus. The night was very dark. A moderate wind was...
Democrat
Shortly after 1 AM on the 13th October j a deplorable disaster overtook the St. David's Life-boat, Gam, after she had rescued three men from the ketch j Democrat, of Barnstaple. The Democrat was riding with her two anchors down on...
Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...
Hermes of Lune
Dragging in storm A YACHT DRAGGING her anchor in North Mouth, Out Skerries, 20 miles north east of Lerwick lifeboat station, in Shetland, was reported to the deputy launching authority by Lerwick Coastguard at 0051 on Tuesday September21,...
Inset- Poole's Quay
Inset- Poole's Quay becomes a hive of activity - buzzing with some 10.000 visitors. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent at the Life-Boat Film Premiere
Being presented with dolls dressed as Grace Darling and a life-boatman. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 11TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Two women and a child were marooned on rocks between Tresaith and Penbryn Sands by the tide, but they decided to remain until the tide went out, and the life-boat was recalled. -...