LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Germania (1)
On the night of the 6th of May, 1955, the Eastbourne. Sussex, life-boat rescued a salvage party of sixteen men from the S.S. Gcrmania and four men from two motor boats which had been helping to unload her. For a full account of this service,...
Christmas Fayre
In November 1997, the Thurso branch again held their Christmas fayre in the Royal Hotel. The special guest of the event was Mr Santa Clause who arrived by car due to the lack of snow but did manage to bring his bag of goodies which went down... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
University Marine Ltd (Zodiac)
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Category: Advertisement
A Dinghy
Newbiggin, Northumberland - At 3.33 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, it was learned that a dinghy had capsized.
Although it had been righted there was no sign of movement from the crew. The life-boat Mary jfoicey was launched at...
Captain Ernest Swan, R.N.V.R.
TILE Committee of Management heard with very great regret of the sudden death on April 6th of their colleague Captain Ernest William Swan, C.R.E., V.D., D.L., R.N.V.R. Captain Swan Ix-came a member of the Committee in 1939, and brought to...
Category: Obituaries
Mary, Duchess of Montrose
MARY, DUCHESS OF MONTROSE, who died in February, 1957, had been made an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, the highest award conferred on an honorary worker, in 1955. She had been president of the Arran Ladies' Life-boat Guild...
Category: Obituaries
God Help Our Men at Sea!
God help our men at sea! In firelit, pictured rooms, 'mid wine and flowers, And gleesome company, The wild winds awe us, in our blithest hours, To sigh this prayer; God help our men at sea ! I had a brother once. Our love ne'er...
Category: Poetry
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE unusually fine weather of the last three months has been most favourable to Life-boat Saturday demonstrations throughout the country, and hardly a Saturday has passed without one or more of such functions being held. The popu- larity of...
Category: Articles
Britannia
26th April. The local fishing boat Britannia put out on the morning of the 25th April, but did not return when expected, and some anxiety was felt. Soon after 11 P.M.
the honorary secretary asked the coast- guard to signal...
Berwick-On-Tweed: Old and New Exercise Together the 42' Watson Lifeboat William and Mary Durham Was Withdrawn from Station to the Relief Fleet on September 17 197
Berwick-on-Tweed: Old and new exercise together. The 42' Watson lifeboat William and Mary Durham was withdrawn from station to the relief fleet on September 17, 1976, being replaced by an Atlantic 21 ILB.
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Category: Photographs