LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British Influence
_ _ Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.
—A telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life Saving Service at about 6.30 A.M. on the 15th September, 1939, asking that the life-boat should be sent out...
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Poop deck ftxky, a nine-year-old Labrador cross, was swept out to sea after racing into ftesea ro chase seagulls at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Haifa mfe from shore. Rocky soon tired of doing doggy-paddle and was relieved to...
Don’t Know
At 8.15 A.M. on the 17th July, the cutter Don't Know, of Yarmouth, was observed in distress in the roads abreast the station, and the Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched.
When she arrived alongside the fishing- boat the...
Spring Comes Early to the Isles of Scilly and on March 4 St.Mary's Town Hall Was a Blaze of Colour for the Ladies' Guild Annual Flower Show: Mrs Mary West Chairman I
Spring comes early to the Isles of Scilly and on March 4, St Mary's town hall was a blaze of colour for the ladies' guild annual flower show: Mrs Mary West, chairman, is seen with some of the many varieties of daffodil shown,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Active
While the wind was blowing hard from the S.W. and a heavy sea was running, a ship was re- ported to be in distress about five miles from this place, on the 19 th September. The Jane life-boat was immediately launched and proceeded to the...
Wietska
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a heavy gale from the S.W., on the 8th December, the Dutch schooner Wietska parted both anchors and chains and drove ashore onthe Knock Sands off Shoeburyness. In response to her signals of distress the Life-boat Boys...
Having Been Given a Monster Potato By a Customer the Landlord of the Sir Douglas Haig Effingham Rod Davis and His Wife Jean Held a Competition to Guess How
Having been given a monster potato by a customer, the landlord of The Sir Douglas Haig, Effingham, Rod Davis, and his wife, Jean, held a competition to guess how many bags of crisps could be made from it. At lOp a guess, £23.60 was soon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
White Heather
At about 8.35 P.M. on the 8th June, a telephone message was received from the coast- guard at St. Agnes that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off St.
Agnes, and unable to make harbour.
A...
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, THURSDAY MAY 22 'The RNLI . . . the finest club in the country . . .' MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE gathered at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames on Thursday May 22 for the...
Category: Meetings
William Naizby
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the 25th January, the Life-boat Leicester went off to the barque William Naizby, of London, which vessel had parted both her chains in a heavy squall, and had afterwards come into collision with the steamer Romeo, of...