LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Life-Boat Matinee
THE second annual Life-boat Matinee at the Lyceum Theatre, organised by the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, was held on the llth December, and realised £992 after all expenses had been...
Category: Articles
The Pyrene Company Ltd
Just as ships in distress know they can depe on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in t emergency of fire the R.N.L.I, ere wsthemseh know they can depend upon t sure and unfailing protect! of the "Pyrene" Fire Ext...
Category: Advertisement
Marie Louise
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a report was received that a motor vessel was aground on the Salisbury bank in the River Dee. She was not in any danger and watch was kept on her.
At 4.20...
Cave Search
On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...
Category: Services
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MAY MEETING RINGFORD, Co. ANTRIM. Two men went out in a very small boat, on the 27th October, 1941, to lift lobster pots. A moderately strong and squally off-shore wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Apparently the small boat got into...
Category: Services
Elise
PLYMOUTH.—At about 3 A.M. on the 2nd September, during a strong gale from the S. and a heavy sea, the Norwegian barque EKs« entered Plymouth Sound for shelter, and let go both her anchors. One chain parted immediately, and the vessel...
Severn
The Severn is the largest of the fleet and is designed to lie afloat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flower o' Mary
On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...
Able Seaman Kevin Rafferty Was Able to Present Andrew Young
Able Seaman Kevin Rafferty was able to present Andrew Young, regional organiser for the south west, with a cheque for £1,195 on his return from six months in the Atlantic with the ocean survey ship HMS Herald. Kevin was sponsored not to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Angle, Pembrokeshire.—31 st January, 1938. A coastguard brought news by car that distress signals had been seen W.S.W. of Flimston Head, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £11 11s. 9d..