LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Shout
Your Shout To add your shout, write to the Editor at [email protected] or RNLI Headquarters, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Dear Editor I am in my 90s but one thingI have never forgotten is when I ‘just went for a swim’. I was...
Category: Correspondence
A "Greater London" Motor Life-Boat. Gift from the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...
Category: Inaugurations
At Port St.Mary Each Tuesday Throughout
At Port St Mary each Tuesday throughout the summer The Strolling Players II. to r.) Elizabeth Coombes, John Watterson and Alice Wilson, dressed in Manx costume, meet outside Crowe's 'Examiner' shop to entertain tourists, playing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prosperity and Ketch Mercy
FISHGUARD.—While a heavy gale was blowing from the S.E. with a rough sea and snow on the afternoon of the 12th January, signals of distress were shown by the smack Prosperity and ketch Mercy, both of Carnarvon, which were riding at anchor in...
Spectacular, of St Malo
The Dr. JTatton, the Institution's boat stationed near New Eomney, was launched soon after noon on the 25th October, and proceeded through a very heavy sea and strong breeze to the assistance of a ketch embayed off Dym- ehurcb. with a...
Waiting for the Lytham Lifeboat
Following the article 'Waiting for the lifeboat', which appeared in the Autumn 1996 issue of The Lifeboat, Lytham coxswain, Paul Heyes, and station honorary secretary, Frank Kilroy, discuss their individual viewpoints regarding...
Category: Articles
Gifts from Crews
THE Institution has received the follow- ing gifts from its Crews.
On 29th July, 1925, the Clacton-on- Sea Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Walkyrie, of Lannion, which had stranded on the N.E. Long Sands when bound from...
Category: Donations
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—The pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 7.55 A.M. on the 26th March, as two fishing cobles were at sea in a dangerous position and the weather had got bad. A moderate north breeze was blowing,...
Effective Fund Raisers the Ladies of Walton
Effective fund raisers in front of their effective fund-raising vehicle.
The ladies of Walton and Frinton guild raised over £900 during lifeboat week selling souvenirs from this caravan which thev purchased themselves.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Telegraph, of Sunderland
On the 8th February, this valuable life-boat went off again, and rendered the following very gallant service. The sloop Telegraph, of Sunderland, bound to London, with a cargo of bottles, was riding in Yar- mouth Roads, when she parted from...