LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Farmers stranded
12 February: Clifden Four experienced fish farmers were working at the mouth of Clifden Bay in Galway when a storm left them stranded and they called for assistance. The Clifden inshore lifeboat rode through huge...
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Wolverhampton Branch
There is nothing you might not be called upon to do as honorary secretary of an RNL1 fund-raising branch. Bob Proudlock, honorary secretary of Wolverhampton branch, proved this point when West Midlands Police Sub-Aqua Club, having swum five... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Canoe
JULY 1ST. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A sailing canoe was thought to have been blown out to sea, but later it was learned that she had returned.-Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
Salcombe: the Crew Who Were on Board the 47Ft Watson Lifeboat the Baltic Exchange
Salcombe: The crew who were on board the 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange when she was capsized and righted on service on April 10, 1983, with Salcombe branch chairman and honorary secretary: (standing, I to r) Mr W. P. Budgett,... - View image in PDF
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From the Canadian Red Cross
The Institution has received a cheque for £55.18.6. from the Canadian ReU Cross Society, which has decided to make a monthly subscription of this amount "in recognition of the great war work done by the Institution from which we...
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Haldon
The Life-boat John Byburn was sent on 3rd March to the assistance of a vessel which had stranded on Ingal Skerry and was showing signals of distress.
A messenger reported at 10.30 A.M. that the vessel was on a dangerous...
The S.S. Empire Breeze (1)
MARCH 13TH - 15TH. - CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the 5th February the S.S. Empire Breeze had stranded on the Bondicar Rocks, and the Amble lifeboat had rescued her crew. On the 13th March the Empire Breeze was refloated and taken in tow...
Say It With Flowers
Say it with flowers The Alsager ladies' guild celebrated its 40th birthday with a beautiful floral display at Milton Park Gardens.
The guild, which raises between £4,000 and £5,000 a year, had asked Congleton... - View image in PDF
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
FOUNDED 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions, PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
VICE-PATRONS.
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Neuha, of Berwick on Tweed
On the 4th January, 1863, the ketch Neuha, of Berwick-upon-Tvveed, having got on shore on the Abertay Bank in a gale fromE.S.E., with foggy weather, the Mary Hartley life- boat, stationed at Broughty Ferry, pro- ceeded to her assistance....