LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fremad
On the 11th January, news was received at this station that the services of the China life-boat were urgently needed in Torbay, as many vessels were in great danger of being wrecked during a strong gale of wind from the N.E. The China...
The Duchess of Kent.
The Duchess of Kent, the new President of the Institution, was anxious to meet as many as possible of those who organise and carry on its work, and after the annual meeting on 8th. July a reception was held at the Savoy...
Category: Articles
Osterling
YACHT REFLOATED IN NEAR GALE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.7 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel abreast of no. 8 buoy, and...
Coxswain Robert Cross: A Correction
IN the last issue of The Life-boat it was said that Coxswain Robert Cross of the life-boat station on the Humber, whose 'portrait appeared on the cover, had joined the crew in 1906, when the station was under the control of the Humber...
Category: Articles
A Working Men's Dance
A REMARKABLE instance of the enthu- siastic support given to the Institution by working men and women was re- counted by Mr. R. M. Burke, the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Tuam, Co. Galway, at the Conference of Honorary Secretaries and...
Category: Donations
The Former Trawler Mary La
Ex-trawler ablaze THE HARWICH Waveney class relief lifeboat Khami was returning from a publicity visit to the East Coast Boat Show at Ipswich on the afternoon of Sunday, June 14, 1987, when the fiveman crew spotted smoke billowing from the...
Mill O' Buckie
At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th January the life-boat watchman reported a vessel ashore near the harbour. A whole N.W. by N. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F., with Mr. Moncas, the branch secretary, on board, put...
New Range of Quality Gifts
FOR THE first time, we are introducing two items which we hope will be more than souvenirs and fall into the category of suitable gifts. For men, there is an attractive set of hand-made cuff-links with the R.N.L.I. motif in gilt and enamel...
Category: Advertisement
Reunion at Torbay In May for Five Retired Coxswains and One Retired Motor Mechanic (I to R) Coxswain Frederick Sanders Motor Mechanic Richard Harris Coxswain
Reunion at Torbay in May for five retired coxswains and one retired motor mechanic.
(I. to r.) Coxswain Frederick Sanders, Motor Mechanic Richard Harris, Coxswain Henry Thomas, Coxswain Abraham Bartlett, Coxswain Harold... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Giannoulis Gounaris and the S.S. Lunineach
MAY 2ND. - LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At 7.15 A.M. the Croyde coastguard reported a steamer ashore to the east of Lynmouth. A light easterly wind was blowing, with a smooth sea, and the weather was hazy. The pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard...