LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medal for Newbiggin, Northumberland
AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.
A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...
Category: Medals
The S.S. St. Patrick
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — During the morning of the 28th February the Great Western Railway local marine superintendent asked if the motor lifeboat White Star would place a crew on board the railway's s.s. St. Patrick, which was lying...
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th Nov. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Category: Committee
Relief Fleet - Atlantic 21 Ernest Armstrong
Lady Payne (left), founder member of the Harrogate ladies guild and donor of the new Atlantic 21 at the ceremony in which she named the lifeboat after her late father.
With her are (from left to right) Alan Tate... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marlene Dorlores
A FOUR HOURS' SEARCH Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.24 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, the coastguard reported distress signals about five miles south-by-west of the station. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 5.45 in...
False Alarms. A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message In a Bottle
A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.
THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee, held on the 10th Jan., at the General Post Office, the Honorary Secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.R.G.S., reported that the Fund had experi- enced more than usual prosperity during the past year,...
Category: Meetings
New Ways of Raising Money
When a life-boat bridge tournament was held recently in a Dublin hotel, several supporters extended the scope of it to neighbouring counties by asking friends to play at tables in their houses.
The players at these tables...
Category: Donations
Below Left: Bembridge's Alt-Weather Lifeboat Station.
Below left: Bembridge's all-weather lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
August
Launches 22. Lives rescued 18.
AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the...
Category: Services