LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£2,136 from Austin Motors
Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Castilian
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HOLYHEAD FEBRUARY 12TH - 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. In the early hours of the 12th of February the S.S. Castilian, a 3,000-ton ship of the Ellerman Papayanni Company, entered Church Bay, and let go two anchors. She...
Big Cheque from a Small Town
Committee members from llminster and district branch presented a cheque for £28,720 to Brian Martin, RNLI area organiser for the south west, during their AGM in April.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Puffin
TOW FOR DINGHY WITH FIVE YOUNG MEN ABOARD Swanage, Dorset. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a visitor had reported seeing a sailing dinghy dismasted about one mile northeast of Peveril...
A Gift from Swedish Lloyd
ON the morning of the 25th of May the Swedish Lloyd Steamship Com- pany's new steamer, the 7,700 ton Patricia arrived at Tilbury on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg. She then came up the Thames to the Pool of London, and lay at New...
Category: Donations
Awards to Honorary Workers
Miss ALICE MARSHALL has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, in recognition of her distinguished services as Honorary Secretary of the Oxford Branch.
To Mrs. WALTERS, in recognition of her valu- able...
Category: Awards
Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
Two New Life-Boat Films
Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...
Category: Articles
Lona M
Motorboat aground ON THE EVENING of Saturday April 24, 1982, the small fishing boat Lona M ran aground on the rocks of North Wamses Island, about four miles east of North Sunderland lifeboat station. Mr Hawkey, warden for the Fame Islands...
Return to the Boat-House
The Newquay life-boat station was established in 1860. Its life-boats have been launched fifty- one times on service and have rescued 103 lives. It has the steepest launching slipway on our coasts, with a gradient of 1 in 2f, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs