LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1919
The Editor acknowledges most gratefully the active and valuable co-operation which the Life-boat cause has received from the head teachers and staffs of schools throughout the country, and would appeal for further help in the work of...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Reduce the risks Given the antics of condemed yachtsman Eric Abbott who 'navigates' by road maps, isn't it time to formalise some form of mandatory training before people put to sea. This guy shows total contempt for the...
Category: Correspondence
A Boat
Buckie, Banffshire - At 12.20 a.m. on 10th September, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht or fishing boat was in distress in the vicinity of Covesea Skerries, Lossiemouth. The life-boat Laura Moncur slipped...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Life-boat Christmas Card and the Life-boat Calendar for 1933 are now ready.
The Calendar.
The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, showing the New...
Category: Advertisement
Mr. Frank Garon, of Southend-On-Sea
MR. FRANK GARON, the chairman of the Southend-on-Sea branch died on the 29th of July at the age of sixty. A director of the big catering firm of Garons in Southend, he was another of the many busy men who yet are able to give much of their...
Category: Obituaries
Annual Meeting
The eighty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Thursday, March 14th, 1912. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., presided, and amongst those present were: — The...
Category: Meetings
Castrol Ltd
Britain's lifi depend on i so can you When engine dependability counts above all else, Castrol is chosen because it is proved safe for all engines . . . on the sea, in the air, and on the road. No other oil can match the Castrol total of...
Category: Advertisement
Gem
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 18th of December, 1949, the motor fishing boat Gem left Whitby to recover lines left at sea the previous day. During the afternoon the wind freshened and, blowing strongly from the north-west, raised a rough sea at...
A Small Metal Dinghy
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coxswain heard that a small metal dinghy with an outboard motor had not been seen since three o'clock. He informed the coastguard, and at 5.0 the life-boat The...