LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whilst Filming the Tv Programme Highway
Whilst filming the TV programme Highway in Anstruther Sir Harry Secombe interviewed Coxswain Peter Murray. He was also invited to break open a gallon bottle of whisky at the Craws Nest Hotel releasing £255.88 to be put towards... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM SWANKIE, B.E.M., on his retirement after serving for 17f years as coxswain and 8| years as second coxswain of the Arbroath life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To LESLIE C. PENNYCORD...
Category: Awards
William, of Wexford
WEXFORD.—At noon, on the 8th March, the sloop William, of Wexford, was wrecked on the north bar during a westerly gale. On observing her signals of distress, the Ethel Eveleen No. 1 Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and succeeded in...
Invergordon By Dag Pike
THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...
Category: Articles
Three Yachts
Vellum service LAST QUARTER'S issue of THE LIFEBOAT reported a service on May 25, 1986 by Ramsey lifeboat to three yachts in trouble at the end of Isle of Man's round the island race. The three yachts were towed one after the other...
Practical Help: (Above) Scouts Repaint Poole's Old Lifeboat House Now a Museum With Paint Supplied By 1C I As Part of the Brighter Britain Campaign (Photo Jeff Morris) A
Practical help: (above) Scouts repaint Poole's old lifeboat house, now a museum, with paint supplied by 1C I as part of the Brighter Britain Campaign (photo, Jeff Morris), and (below) members of 206 air navigation course, RAF Finningly,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) a Salute from An RN Wessex Helicopter
(Right) A salute from an RN Wessex helicopter during a short trip in Holes Bay. photograph (right) by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rye Remembered
Popular Warwick folk band, Meet on the Ledge, have included a track on their new CD which tells the story of the 1928 Rye Harbour lifeboat tragedy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Transport Workers and the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a cheque from the Walthamstow Branch of the Transport and General "Workers' Union, and with it a letter, in which, the Branch Secretary writes:— " I hope to send a similar cheque every quarter. It...
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