LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Monte Gurugu
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
Gai Floreal
FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS St. Ives, Cornwall. At 6.17 on the morning of the 4th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor trawler Gai Floreal of Dieppe was in difficulties three miles west of St. Ives...
A Close-Up Broadside View
A close-up broadside view of the model: note the faithful reproduction of the anchor stowage and of the stanchions and guard chains: it took Mr Turland seven hours to fit just one of the bottle screws. Note also the buo ancy blocks behind... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pictorial Story An IRB Service
This series of IRB photographswas taken by David Harwood on 4th April, 1969,when the Exmouth, Devon, IRB rescued two men whose rowing boat had been swampedat the south endof Western Way.
The two men were suffering from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN LIONEL DEREK SCOTT has been coxswain of The Mumbles life-boat since May 1955, when he became one of the youngest coxswains in the service of the RNLI. He had joined the crew in 1947. H; received the Institution's silver medal in...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
Gour don, Kincar dineshir e - At 11.10 a.m. on 22nd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the fishing fleet was having difficulties at the harbour entrance. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at 11.22...
A Handsome Pair!
Two of the collectors from the B irmingham branch attracted the attention of shoppers in the City Centre by wearing RNLI equipment and collecting next to an Atlantic 21 lifeboat.
The two collectors were part of a large team... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
North Berwick
NORTH BERWICK - "This new building for the lifeboat crew, built on the site of a shop, fits remarkably well into the existing conservation area streetscape. Externally, traditional materials have been used to good effect Great care and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Muck and Brass:
Muck and brass: a pile of horse manure was donated to the Royal Tunbridge Wells and District branch and sold by the sack at a coffee morning held at the home of Mrs Joan Pearce, in the village of Front, Sussex. The event brought in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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DECEMBER 9TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. A message was received from Dr. Cruickshank, of Walls, that he had had an urgent call to go to Foula Island. The weather was too rough for the ferry boat to make the passage, and no other vessel was available...