LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (34)
MARCH 12TH. - GALWAY BAY. A British aeroplane had crashed in Galway Bay, and the five members of her crew had baled out.
Two of them were found, but the others seemed to have been blown far out to sea, and the motor...
Shemara
Eight saved on January night IN THE SMALL HOURS of Thursday January 31, 1985 the coastguard reported to Oban's honorary secretary that a fishing vessel, Shemara, was aground on Lady's Rock and was in urgent need of the lifeboat.The...
Carrying on Though Crippled
IT is not only the crews of the Life- boats who carry on in spite of injury.
There have recently been two cases, which deserve to be recorded, of ladies continuing their work for financial Branches after serious...
Category: Articles
First class delivery
Supporters donated generously for her construction, volunteers gave their time to trial her, and the RNLI’s project team worked day and night. Now a new class of all-weather lifeboat has become a reality after the first Shannon entered the...
Category: Articles
Scott Bader
GREAT GRTSTIC BOATS! Crystic polyester resin is being specified for the Crystic polyester resin will be gladly supplied on GRP hulls of workboats all over the world be- request. Illustrated: The Ernest William and cause it has proved itself...
Category: Advertisement
Family Life at Spurn Head So Far from Civilisation Is Very Important and the Children Are Constantly Remembered Here Father Christmas Arrives With Gifts Greeted Hy Som
Family life at Spurn Head so far from civilisation is very important and the children are constantly remembered. Here Father Christmas arrives with gifts greeted hy some of the youngsters.
by courtesy of 'Yorkshire... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
" / have given all those fifty badges out, and now am wanting many more as I have more new members to give them to, and also many of the old workers are very anxious to join. .. .
I am quite sure that the Guild is a...
Category: Articles
International Conference on the World's Life-Boat Service
The Presentation of Gold Medals and Addresses of Congratulation to the Institution.
AN International Conference on the World's Life-boat Service was held, in connexion with the Centenary of the Institution, on 1st and...
Category: Meetings
Holidays Galore
Scotland's 1983 Holidays Galore prize draw, which grossed about £10,000 for the lifeboats by the sale of tickets by branches and guilds, took place on August 5.
First prize, a cruise to Faroes on the Smyril Line MF... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Spidola
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 14th of February, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore in a thick fog to the south-east of the South Stack Light- house, and at 8.32 the motor life-boat A.E.D. was...