LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Bronze Medal Service at Southend-On-Sea
THE Southend - on - Sea motor life- boat, Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), which had already been out in the great gale of 23rd Novem- ber, 1938, on almost continuous service for twelve hours, was again called out three days later, on...
Category: Services
"Leave Me to Drown."
AN Irishman who was asked to help the Life-boat Service to form a Branch has replied that he has so many other things to subscribe to that he can do no more, and adds, " the only way the Life-boat can retaliate is when they see me...
Category: Articles
Longhope £3,000 raised from three islands tour
Keeping fundraising going after the Summer is no mean feat, but for some communities it can be even trickier. With residents
across Orkney keen to support their local crew, Longhope Lifeboat Guild volunteers toured their bazaar...
Category: Articles
Ilb Launches on Service During the Months December 1971 and January and February 1972
Beaumaris, Anglesey Broughty Ferry, Angus Eastney, Hampshire Hastings, Sussex Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire Largs, Ayrshire Littlehampton, Sussex Llandudno, Caernarvonshire Lymington, Hampshire Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire Mudeford,...
Category: Services
Hidden Treasure Shops
I HAVE been asked to write an article on 'shops' or 'hidden treasure shops' as we now call them and wonder just where and how to begin.
I think I'll go back to 1962 when we had our first shop. There were...
Category: Articles
Letters to the Editor
SIR. - Since it would appear that no record has been made of the Institu- tion's earliest effort at mechanization, I am most interested in preparing a paper covering the inception of the steam life-boat; its design; building and method...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.
A strong gale was blowing...
Category: Services
Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1978
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Septembers, November 12 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd September 16 and 17 Aberystwyth, Dyfed October 13 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 23 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan September 2. 3 and October 15 Barmouth, Gwynedd September...
Category: Services
The Icelandic Trawler Olafur Gisli and M.V. Gavina
Icelandic trawler AT 0430 ON MONDAY December 12, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station that MV Gavina of Fleetwood was trying to take in tow an Icelandic trawler, Olafur Gisli, west of Shell Wharf....
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To JOHN MATTHEWS, on his retirement, after serving for 30 years as coxswain and 2| years as bowman of the Moelfre life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To WILLIAM II....
Category: Awards