LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letter
Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
Willowpool (1)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...
Gleneden
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
Lymington:
Lymington: For the rescue of two men from the fishing boat Al Mor, driven ashore on marshland in near gale force winds on December 17, 1980, Helmsman Alan Coster (c.) was awarded the bronze medal and Crew Members Peter Harvey (I.) and Simon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mobility People
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Category: Advertisement
A Boat (1)
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FLEETWOOD.—In accordance with the wishes of the Life-boat men, the Life-boat which is kept moored afloat at Fleetwood has been replaced by a new sailing boat, which is a modification of the large one designed in 1887 for the South- port...
Category: Articles
The Ladies Oj Kirkburton Guild West Yorkshire Together With Many Friends Volunteered to Be Extras In a Training Film Made Recently for the National Biscuit Company At
The ladies oj Kirkburton guild. West Yorkshire, together with many friends, volunteered to be extras in a training film made recently for the National Biscuit Company at Hillards stores.
After a very entertaining afternoon,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Iifeboatmen' Ii to R) Muriel Winfield Doris Smith and Barbara Fitzgerald from Kidlington Branch Perform ' the Lifeboat Song' During the Branch's Old Tyme M
Three iifeboatmen', II. to r.) Muriel Winfield, Doris Smith and Barbara Fitzgerald, from Kidlington branch, perform ' The Lifeboat Song' during the branch's Old Tyme Music Hall held last April. The lyrics were written by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs