LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In the Cabin
The transmitter and receiver, with the power pack underneath, and the microphone in the mechanic's hand. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. F. M. H. Coleman, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton
MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in January were carried out by the following stations
NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
Category: Services
The S.S. Marie Moller
Holyhead, Anglesey.—On March 22nd the motor life-boat A.E.D. rescued 59 men from the s.s. Marie Moller, of Shanghai, when she was on fire.— Rewards, £10 18s. 6d. (A full account of this service appeared in the last issue of The...
Letters
Still going strong It may be of interest to some of your readers that the actual barometer featured on p. 312 of your Spring 1986 edition is still in good working order and situated in a glass panelled recess in a wall at the village of...
Category: Correspondence
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1961
1960 £ 197,541 334 42,558 17,618 65 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Aith, Appledore, Boulmer, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Howth, Lizard-Cadgwith, Longhope, Penlee, ...
Category: Accounts
The Passenger Steamer Lady Hudson Kinaham
During a dense fog in the Channel on the 27th May, the passenger steamer Ladt/ Hudson Kinahan, of Dublin, ran ashore half a mile to the eastward of the " Holt : Tail," on the, South Devon, coast.
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A Canoe
Cromer, Norfolk.—2nd August, 1938.
A bather had got into difficulties at Walcot Gap, and two men who had put out in a canoe were lost and the bather had been saved before the life-boat could reach them.—Rewards, £9 Is....
Surf and turf
On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1950.
£ «. d.
18 7 6 M. _M _HM Subscriptions, Dona- tions, Collecting, Boxes.
11 10 8 _ _...
Category: Accounts