LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Buckingham (1)
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...
RNLI Directory
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Category: Advertisement
Mrs Catherine Patterson Vice-President of Anstruther Ladies' Guild and Coxswain Peter Murray Handover a Cheque for £4700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council the Money Was Rai
Mrs Catherine Patterson, vice-president of Anstruther ladies' guild, and Coxswain Peter Murray handover a cheque for £4,700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council. The money was raised at Anstruther's gala day when a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gregory Conneely Chairman of Galway and Aran Fishermen's Co-Operative Society Presents a Cheque for £1500 the Result of a Proportion of Its Fish Auction Being Made Over to the Rnli (1 To
Gregory Conneely, chairman of Galway and Aran Fishermen's Co-Operative Society, presents a cheque for £1,500, the result of a proportion of its fish auction being made over to the RNLI. (1. to r.) Noel Mickey, chairman of Galway... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
French Medals for Three Life-Boat Crews. Barry Dock, Torbay and Longhope
Barry Dock, Torbay and Longhope.
THE French Government has awarded medals to English, Scottish and Welsh life-boat crews for gallantry last winter.
During the seven months, from the beginning of...
Category: Medals
Tradesman and Masterman
Penlee, Cornwall.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of Novem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported an S.O.S. message from the tug Tradesman.
The tug Masterman, of Falmouth, at anchor in Mounts Bay with a crew...
Naming Ceremonies
The new Troon life-boat, James and Barbara Aitken, was named by Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Montrose, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president of the Isle of Arran branch, on the 9th of July, 1955. The cost of this life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Past and Present
50 years ago LIFE-BOAT BULLETIN No.24 1946 A year of peace In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives.
That is an average of 56 lives a month and is only 50 lives less...
Category: Articles
Auguste
At 6.10 P.M. on the 26th October, during a strong S.S.E. breeze and rough sea, signals were made from the Spanish Battery calling out the motor Life-boat Henry Vernon. The boat proceeded without loss of time and found the German steamer...
A Small Pulling Boat and Ray
Hythe, Kent.—At 10.57 A.M. on the 3rd August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a man had put off from Sandgate in a small pulling boat at 9 A.M. for an hour. He had not returned.
It was assumed that he could not get back....