LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trade Winds
Weston - super - Mare, Somerset. — Shortly after eight o'clock on the even- ing of the 13th of August, 1957, the pier master noticed that a yacht was in difficulties off Sand Point. Fifteen minutes later the yacht flashed S.O.S.,...
Rambler
ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 24th October the schooner Rambler, of Folkestone, was seen to be running for the shore at Aldborough with a flag of distress in her rigging, during a heavy gale of wind from S.S.W., and a very rough sea. She...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1879
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal and U. to Mr.
JAMES MACKAY for saving two boys by swimming at great risk to a boat, which, had been swamped while attempting to cross the Bar of Tongue, tine Margaret, of Rye, which was...
Category: Articles
On Saturday Evening August 7 1982 a Joint Event Was Held By Beer and District Branch and the Axminster Girl Guides Association
On Saturday evening August 7, 1982, a joint event was held by Beer and District branch and the Axminster Girl Guides Association, which was attended by about 12,000 people and raised about £850 for the lifeboats. There was a camp fire... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And (Left) the Following Week Was Taken to Sea By Crew Members Peter Evans (I) and John Clowes for An Inspection of the River As Part of a Drive to Improve Local Lifesaving
and (left) the following week was taken to sea by Crew Members Peter Evans (I.) and John Clowes for an inspection of the river as part of a drive to improve local lifesaving facilities.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Monance
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 6th of June, 1948, the police reported that a yacht was drag- ging her moorings in a dangerous posi- tion at the mouth of Lymington river, with one man on board, and the motor life-boat...
Ocean Bride
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 5th November, a three-masted vessel was observed ashore on the East Burrows or Sunk Sand, but no signals could be made out even with the aid of a powerful telescope. The wind was blowing from the S.S.W....
Annual Meeting
This number of The Lifeboat is really the June number. It was almost ready to be printed when, towards the end of June, afire at the works of the Whitefriars Press, Tonbridge, destroyed nearly the whole of the type. The Committee of...
Category: Meetings
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...
Category: Meetings
Presentations Brian Clark National Organiser (Ireland) Presents the Silver Badge to Madam Anne Rittweger Ladies Secretary of Donaghadee Golf Club In Recognition F
Presentations . . . Brian Clark, National Organiser (Ireland), presents the silver badge to Madam Anne Rittweger, ladies secretary of Donaghadee Golf Club, in recognition for all she has done over many years for the Institution; in 1976... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs