LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
SINCE the last number of The Life-boat appeared there have died Mr. R. O.
Hill, for many years honorary secretary at the stations of Drogheda (now closed) and Clogher Head ; Captain Thomas McCombie, of Dublin, a gold and...
Category: Obituaries
RIDING TO THE RESCUE
‘You bet!’ That’s what a group of local lads said when challenged to undertake a gruelling bike ride from Arbroath to Dobbies at Ethiebeaton Park – and back – late last summer. Their combined pedal-power raised a whopping £563, which...
Category: Articles
Bonne Adele
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The schooner Bonne Adele, of Isigny, France, bound to that port from Llanelly, with coal, parted her cables and drove ashore about a quarter of a mile west of Hayle Bar during a strong N. gale and heavy sea, at about 3 P.M....
Crew Rescued After Vessel Strikes Life-Boat
AT 2.1 on the afternoon of 18th Novem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Blyth life-boat station, Captain H.
Rowe, was informed by the coastguard that a small coaster was in difficulties off Blyth Fairway buoy. Two...
Category: Services
Betsy, of Portsmouth
Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven, Sussex.—The Shoreham motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 4.25 A.M. on the 3rd September, as the coastguard had reported red flares some distance W.S.W.
of the harbour....
£212 from a Leeds Christmas Tree
LAST Christmas a Leeds firm, Messrs.
Schofields, had a Christmas tree in the arcade outside their stores and asked for a life-boat collecting box to put beside it. They collected in it £212 9s.
The...
Category: Donations
Brooke Marine Ltd
Brooke Marine Limited ESTABLISHED 1874 SHIPBUILDERS ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS TypeSOftSelf-Righting Length overall 50'0" Beam 14' 6" Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp. gallons Twin General Motors...
Category: Advertisement
Cornish Rose
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT THE MUMBLES JANUARY 20TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. Just beforeseven o’clock in the morning signals of distress in Swansea Bay could be seen from The Mumbles, and the motor life-boat Edward Prince of Wales was...
Cover Picture
At the annual presentation of awards meeting on May 15 Crew Member Arthur M. Hill of Largs lifeboat station received from HM the Queen Mother the silver medal awarded to him for the rescue on July 24, 1983, of a young girl trapped in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Helier - South Division
St Helier, on the Channel Island of Jersey, is the RNLI's most southerly lifeboat station. A Tyne lies afloat alongside a pontoon just outside the 'cill', which keeps enough water in the marina basin for local and visiting yachts... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs