LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award Winners. Above L to R: Sarah Halls, regional manager east; Dave Dipple, sponsor from Talking Numbers; Elaine Close, regional manager north
Above L to R: Sarah Halls, regional manager east; Dave Dipple, sponsor from Talking Numbers; Elaine Close, regional manager north west; Richard Mann, national fundraising manager, and Wendy Reason, senior area organiser east.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Howth:
Howth: (above) The new lifeboathouse was dedicated on April 14. (I to r) Mr John Guinness, chairman Howth branch, His Excellency President P. J. Hillery, Lord Killanin, vice-president of the Committee of Management, Father B. Kelly, Mrs Joan... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morn- ing of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were being tested as she lay at moorings. At half past eleven the coxswain noticed a small boy being carried out to sea in a...
Mary
A very heavy storm of wind and snow was experienced here on the 8th February, and the- sea broke heavily amongst the rocks. The schooner Mary, of Montrose, coal laden from Methill for Balta Sound, brought up at anchor north of the harbour...
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Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...
The Book of Flags
A SECOND edition has been published of The Book of Flags (Oxford Univer- sity Press, 155.), by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., and Mr. I. O. Evans, F.R.G.S., which was first published in 1950 and reviewed in The Life-boat for...
Category: Articles
Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, visited lifeboat stations at Barrow, Morecambe, Fleetwood, Blackpool and Lytham-St Anne's on Wednesday April 27. At each station he inspected the lifeboat and met lifeboatmen, station... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Colonel Satterthwaite
Lieut.-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. who came to the Institution as deputy-secretary in 1924, and has been secretary since 1931, retires at the end of this year. In announcing it at the annual meeting Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt,, said:...
Category: Articles
Winifred and Shawford (1)
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Maartje, of Rotterdam
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford; and Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 14th July, 1961,pilots at Dunmore East reported that the coaster Maartje of Rotterdam needed help ten miles south-west of Hook Town, as her engines...