LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ann Jane, Gauntlett, S.S.Ballinbreich Castle and the Millie Bain
HOLYHEAD.—On the 2nd January a wind blowing with hurricane force from W.N.W. prevailed, accompanied by a very heavy sea, and the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out three times to assist vessels which were danger. At 4.30 P...
Starling, and Brigs Happy Return and Reward
On the following day, the Life-boat and tug proceeded and rescued the schooner Starling, of Goole, and brigs Happy Return and Reward, of Guernsey, and their crews, numbering 21 men in all..
A Motor Boat
21 st August. A motor boat capsized. Five of the six occupants were rescued by boats from the shore.—Rewards, £6 3s. &d..
(Below) Two Girl Guide Brass Trefoils Presented to Eastney Ilb Station By 29Th Portsmouth Guide Company Have Been Chrome Plated and Fitted to the Console of Atla
(Below) Two Girl Guide brass trefoils, presented to Eastney ILB station by 29th Portsmouth Guide Company, have been chrome plated and fitted to the console of Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bicycle for Life-Saving at Sea
LAST March one of the Institution's contractors forwarded to it a letter inquiring if there were any kind of bicycle " used at summer resorts for saving life," as the writer was " about to invent a bicycle of that...
Category: Articles
Volvo
TRUST VOLVO TO LAUNCH A CAR LIKE THIS.
A car with an airbag and pre-tensioners as standard. A car with advanced side impact protection. A car with a rigid steel safety cage. A car you can believe in. (Oh yes, and a car you...
Category: Advertisement
A Whaler
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a whaler with a crew of six sea cadets was being carried by the ebb tide on to a lee shore off...
The Annual Meeting
The first full annual meeting for five years was held in London on October 25th., *nd H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, presented the eight gold medals won during the war for conspicuous...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Margareta
Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...
A Dinghy
Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...