LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arthur Lowe
It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.
Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly...
Category: Obituaries
Obituary
With deep regret we announce the following deaths: April Dr Robert Rees Prytherch, a lifelong supporter of the RNLI who had been honorary medical adviser at Criccieth since 1956 and chairman of the station branch for many years. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS TALLON, on his retirement, after serving for 4 years as coxswain, 11J years as second coxswain, and previously 18J years as bowman of the Clogher Head life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, and a gratuity in lieu of a...
Category: Awards
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
PIER FISHERMAN SWEPT TO SEA
HARTLEPOOL | 21 MARCH
Washed 20m out to sea and battered by a heavy swell, one angler owes his life to RNLI volunteers who were on exercise nearby. Hartlepool’s Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (4)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. About two in the afternoon, four boys put out duck-shooting in a rowing boat.
By seven o’clock they had not returned. The night was very dark, and a strong southwesterly breeze was...
Ho, Ho, Ho...
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...and a bottle of rum! Tom Greer of Watson's Rum presents £1,500 to area organiser Colin Lawson in the presence of the Anstruther crew in April. The money was collected from rum bottles strategically... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Volvo
THE VOLVO RANGE EXCLUSIVE SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS OF THE RYA AS AN RYA MEMBER YOU ARE ENTITLED TO EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS ON A NEW VOLVO SUPPLIED FROM HR OWEN. IN ADDITION TO THESE PRIVILEGED TERMS WE WILL ORGANISE A TEST DRIVE FOR YOU AT YOUR...
Category: Advertisement
Autumn
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — A message having been received by telephone from the Gunfleet light-house on the 7th February, the crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company were summoned, and at 3.45 A.M. the boat was launched. She proceeded...
The S.S. Tanafjord
MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat...