LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Fowey, Cornwall. —At 2.3 early on the morning of the 12th of August. 1954, the Polruan coastguard reported that a vessel was sounding blasts on a fog- horn near Gwineas Rock about one mile west of Mevagissey. At 2.31 the life-boat C.D.E.C....
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start...
Category: Services
Albert and India
AND KINGSDOWNE.—Two large vessels went on the Goodwin Sands on the 18th De- cember. They were the barque Albert, of Bremen, 750 tons, bound thence to the East Indies, and the barque India, of Shields, 700 tons, bound to that port from Quebec...
Mousme
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 12.23 early on the morning of the llth of July, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Beachy Head lighthouse that redflares had been seen three miles south- west of the...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1898
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES IN 1898.
Lives saved.
Addgunde, barque, of Tonsberg 12 Albert, ketch, of Watchet......... 3 Anglo-Saxon, barge — rendered assistance.
Annie Warren, sch.,...
Category: Articles
Letters
Letter of the quarter Memorial arboretum goes ahead Following on from the appeal in the letters page of the winter issue of the Lifeboat, I am pteased to announce that we have reached our target of £5,000. We have secured a plot at the...
Category: Correspondence
Head Protection for Lifeboat Crews By Stuart Welford Btbch Mimcche Mrina Research and Development Officer Rnli
Research and Development Officer, RNLI IMAGINE A JANUARY AFTERNOON. Not much wind, but a cold front forecast; the light will fade in a couple of hours; wind and sea will be getting up and the temperature is dropping all the...
Category: Articles
Three Aeroplanes
JULY 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. Information had been received that three aeroplanes had fallen into the sea. Many the men were away fishing, but a crewwas obtained, and with the help of women the life-boat was launched. At the time an attack...
And Another £227—With 75P Extra—Was Collected By Mr Swift of the Blue Posts Newman Street London Wl He Raised This Magnificent Sum Since July 1972 By Using
And another £227—with 75p extra—was collected by Mr Swift of The Blue Posts, Newman Street, London, Wl. He raised this magnificent sum since July 1972 by using his lifeboat box as a 'swear box' and by holding an annual Christmas... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs