LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thetis
LONDON BARGE ADRIFT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1947, the motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 put out in a strong west-south-west gale, with a very rough sea, to search for a missing...
Rotarians Celebrate: the Nine Rotary Clubs of West Glamorgan
Rotarians celebrate: the nine Rotary clubs of West Glamorgan came together for a presentation dinner at University College, Swansea, after they had raised a remarkable £25,050 for The Mumbles lifeboat appeal in a grand prize draw. Cliff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CUMBERLAHD.—On the 17th April, 1866, information was received, during a strong gale from W.S.W., that a schooner was on shore on Dub Mill Scar, about eight miles E N.E. of this place, with a flag of distress flying. In a very short time the...
Category: Services
Saluto
An exception- ally heavy gale visited the south-west part of England on the 13th December, and during the height of the gale the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out to go to the help of a sailing- ship in distress in the bay. The...
The New Piel (Barrow) Boat-House and Slipway
(In the last issue of The Life-boat, in the account of the Inaugura Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Piel, a photograph of the old boat-house was reproduced in mistake for the new one.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Guildford
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.44 early on the morning of the 10th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Guildford, of London, had been in collision three miles north of Whitby.
He later gave the position as...
Plymouth Exhibition
The international lifeboat exhibition, which as reported in the July issue of THE LIFEBOAT is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, will run from July 20 to August 31,1974, and not from July 14 to September 10 as...
Category: Correspondence
Search In High Wind
FOR a search carried out in a northwesterly wind of storm force, when a wind speed of over 107 miles per hour was recorded, letters of commendation have been sent to the members of the crew of the St. Helier life-boat and of a Jersey pilot...
Category: Services
Pulling a Bird!
Denis Twomey, RNLI area organiser for the South West, and 74 students from Bristol University Air Squadron recently managed to pull a 65 tonne Hercules aircraft a mile along runway 24 at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sale of Foreign Postage Stamps
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, proposes to form a stamp club in order to sell foreign postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution. She would be very glad to...
Category: Articles