LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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HUNGER CALL At 1.15 p.m. on 2ist December, 1964, the chairman of the branch was asked by the manager of Radio Invicta, a wireless transmitting station on Redsand Towers, if the life-boat would take food to the radio station as no other...
Orthon Stathatos
A large Greek steamer named the Othon Stathatos, of Ithaca, carrying a crew of twenty-three hands, and bound from Penarth to Athens with a cargo of 6,000 tons of coal, struck a submerged rock about two miles north of Pendeen and commenced to...
Mrs Wendy Greenhalgh
MAY 1990: Mrs Wendy Greenhalgh, honorary treasurer of Bury Ladies'guild since 1981 and committee member for 15 years..
Category: Obituaries
New Ways of Raising Money
Regular customers at the "Rising Sun" in the City of London are expected to carry with them certain unusual coins which they are known to possess. If they fail to produce them fines are imposed, and in this way the landlord, Mr. F....
Category: Donations
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.0 in the evening, on the 25th of June, 1951, the Kildonan coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy was reported in difficulties and drifting two miles south-west of Whiting Bay. At 6.17 the life-boat Sir David...
A Dinghy (3)
Swanage, Dorset - At 2.30 p.m. on 16th October, 1966, a party of 10 skin divers were being swept over Peveril ledge and were in need of assistance. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.40 in a fresh west south westerly wind and a rough...
Industry
NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE. — The schooner Industry, of Aberystwyth, bound from Bristol for Newquay with a general cargo showed signals of distress while at anchor in a dangerous position in the bay, during a strong N.W. gale on the morning of...
Weyward
Weymouth, Dorset - At 1.48 p.m. on llth March, 1970, the coastguard reported that a small boat was in difficulties in Ringstead bay, one mile off shore. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.1. There was a moderate...
Coxswain Eric Ward of St.Ives
Coxswain Eric Ward of St Ives joined the All-weather lifeboat crew in 1973, and has been a crew member of the inshore lifeboat since 1966. He served as second coxswain from 1988 until his appointment as coxswain in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs