LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penton
The motor cruiser Penton, of Cardiff, with three men on board, was making for Barry on the night of the 25th-26th June, when, through a defect in her machinery, she was obliged to anchor near Friars Point. Her anchors dragged and she lighted...
LIFESAVING IN FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer 1973 NEWS HAS COME from France of the launching by the Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer of a new 15.5 m 'all seasons' lifeboat, Pierre Loti; a boat which cost over £100,000 to build...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Worcester Ladies Guild
The fourth annual concert organised by Worcester ladies guild had, as star attraction, top television and recording personality Iris Williams. Miss Williams agreed to sing in the concert after making a BBC series aboard the liner Canberra,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cooperative Bank
The COOPERATIVE BANK A Loan from I **•/ is as near as your phone o APR Specially negotiated rates for RNLI members Borrow any amount between £500-£15,000 Funds transferred directly to your bank account Monthly repayment LOAN £...
Category: Advertisement
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of this excellent Institution, established for the purpose of relieving, by food, clothes, and money, shipwrecked sailors of all nations cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held last summer at the...
Category: Meetings
Graceful Lady
Gear Box Failure ON SUNDAY, September 16, 1973, a local fisherman at Wells, Norfolk, informed the coxswain's wife that the 54' fishing vessel Graceful Lady, on passage from Great Yarmouth to Wells, was stranded on the east side of...
Birthday Honours
AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: Knight Bachelor: Alderman Martin Wallace, J.P., former president of the Belfast branch.
Companion of the...
Category: Awards
Lifeguards award
The Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award 2010 will be presented to Jamie Rowlands and Andy Waterfield of Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, for rescuing two surfers on 29 October.
In a demonstration of seamanship worthy of an...
Category: Articles
May Lily
JULY 27TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The fishing boat May Lily was overdue No news about her could be obtained and at three in the afternoon a request was made for aeroplanes to search.
They returned...