LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from Dutch Vessel on Fire
AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
Category: Services
Dee Gypsy
IRB TRANSFERRED CREW Blackpool, Lancashire. At 12.40 a.m.
on 28th August, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was firing distress flares approximately \ mile offshore near the South Pier. At one...
After Her Naming and a Service of Dedication on Sunday July 19
After her naming and a service of dedication on Sunday July 19, New Brighton's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat is towed across the beach ready for launching. She is one of the Atlantics generously provided by Fred Olsen Lines... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat
Four launches OVER THE WEEKEND of September 16 and 17 Filey lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle, launched on service three times and the station D class ILB once within the space of 26 hours.
The first...
A Vessel (25)
JULY 5TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A vessel had been reported on fire five miles off St. Albans Head, but nothing could be found. News was received later that the vessel had been towed into port. She had formed part of a convoy which had been...
Mrs. Bella Mattison of Cullercoats. The Last of a Memorable Band
MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.
The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....
Category: Articles
Coming to our AGM and annual awards?
The RNLI AGM and annual presentation of awards will take place at The Barbican, London, on 21 May 2015. Details of the AGM will be mailed to Governor members of the RNLI, and more details about both events will feature in the next edition of...
Category: Articles
Just one inch of water
Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1934
1st February to 30th April, 1934.
Greater London.
ACTON.—Annual meeting, the Mayoress in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1933 £93, the...
Category: Branches