LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Four years ago two Buckie golf clubs, Buckpool and Strathlene, combined to run an annual open golf men's tournament in aid of the RNLI. It is held in alternate years at each club. In 1975 a tournament for ladies was started to be played...
Category: Donations
Modern Lifeboat Equipment
PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
Category: Articles
A Pilot Boat
At daylight, on the 20th February, a pilot-boat was observed at anchor under Craig Leith Island, with the sea breaking very heavily all round her, and the wind blowing a gale from N.N.W. with severe frost. The North Berwick life-boat was...
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Conditions at operational limits Thanks on Vellum awarded to New Brighton coxswain Anight-time rescue in atrocious conditions on the River Mersey led to thanks from the RNLI for the helmsman, crew and shorehelpers of the New Brighton...
A Boat (2)
AUGUST 8TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
A number of soldiers had gone out ina boat and could not make any headway against tide and sea, but they were picked up by a steamer. - Rewards, £5 14s..
A Grain Elevator
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A grain elevator, which was in tow of a Russian ship, had broken adrift and gone ashore, but no one was on board. - Rewards, £18 14s..
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JANUARY 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. Clouds of smoke had been seen, but the life-boat could find nothing. The cold was severe, and the life-boat returned covered with ice from stem to stern. - Rewards, £7 14s....
An Aeroplane (18)
MAY 23RD. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane which had left Belfast at 10.40 A.M. was reported to be overdue, and an unidentified object had been seen about a mile west of Rossall Shooting Range, but nothing was found. -...
An Steamer
NOVEMBER 16TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An unknown steamer, which had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, had signalled for a doctor, and with Col. G. D.
Franklin, C.I.E., O.B.E., late I.M.S. on board, the...
A H.M. Trawler
NOVEMBER 25TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A H.M. trawler had been reported in need of help, but while searching for her the life-boat was recalled by wireless as her services were not needed.- Rewards, £18 14s..