LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
BridUngton, Yorkshire.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 27th of November, 1953, during bad weather, the coast- guard assembled the coastguard shore life-saving team to man the piers in case any fishing boat entering the harbour needed help....
Torbay: SEASIDE SPECIAL BRINGS IN THE CROWDS
Hundreds of people defied the rain to support another fantastic Seaside Special at Torbay Lifeboat Station. The Seaside Special is Torbay’s biggest fundraiser of the year and rounds off a week of activities ranging from Walk the Extra Mile...
Category: Articles
A Framed Record of Thanks Was Presented to Captain Ian Gibb of P and O Ss Canberra By Lt-Cdr Brian Miles (2nd I) Staff Officer Operations Rnli and Himself a Former Officer of P and O Since La
A framed record of thanks was presented to Captain Ian Gibb of P and O ss Canberra by Lt-Cdr Brian Miles (2nd I.), staff officer operations RNLI and himself a former officer of P and O.
Since last September £3,000 has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£120 from Exmoor Shepherds
THE honorary secretary of the Minehead branch writes: "You may be interested to know that a friend of mine—the licensee of a small hotel in a remote spot on Exmoor—assisted by local shepherds, last September organised some sheep- dog...
Category: Donations
Cairnsmore
Fishermen taken off THE COXSWAIN of Angle lifeboat was informed at 0007 on Friday December 1, 1978, that the 39ft fishing boat Cairnsmore, on passage to Scotland, was in trouble five miles south west of the Hats and Barrels. Maroons were...
Coxswain Thomas Langlands, of Whitby
The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...
Category: Obituaries
The Chairman of the Committee of Management, Capt. The Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Receiving a Copy of the Film 'Life-Boat' From the Deputy Managing Director of the Perkins Engines Group, Mr. Richard Perkins
The Chairman of the Committee of Management, Capt. The Hon.
V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., receiving a copy of the film 'Life-boat' from the deputy managing director of the Perkins Engines Group,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Forecasting Weather
While making a few observations on this important subject, we seize the opportunity of republishing recent re- marks of Mr. Scott, the able and scientific chief of the London Weather Office.
He says:—" The system of...
Category: Articles
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MEDICAL CALL At 7.50 p.m. on 8th March, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would convey a patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other boat was available. The life-boat The Rankin, on temporary...