LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Richard Sounders (I) Chairman of the Central London Committee and Mrs Robin Aisher Chairman
Mrs Richard Sounders (I.), chairman of the Central London Committee, and Mrs Robin Aisher, chairman of the ball committee, are two of the ladies responsible for the organisation of the Central London annual Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball. One of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Every Year Ronald Tail (Third from Left) Conducts Seashore Nature Trails
Every year Ronald Tail (third from left) conducts seashore nature trails, taking holidaymakers on walks along the beach at Appledore and telling them about some of the numerous creatures that live in the pools, on the rocks and in the sand... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Audacity
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
The Above Extracts Are Reproducedjfrom Thejfollowing Newspapers: the Western Telegraph, Haverfordwest; Worthing Herald; Evening Echo, Bournemouth; Evening Post, and Chronicle, Wigan;
The above extracts are reproducedjfrom thejfollowing newspapers: The Western Telegraph, Haverfordwest; Worthing Herald; Evening Echo, Bournemouth; Evening Post, and Chronicle, Wigan; North Wales Weekly News, Conway; Kidderminster Times, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sale of Foreign Postage Stamps
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, proposes to form a stamp club in order to sell foreign postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution. She would be very glad to...
Category: Articles
A Skilful Rescue In Unknown Waters
AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.
The...
Category: Services
Two to One.
On October nth., 1941, the total number of lives rescued by life-boats since the beginning of the war was 4131. That is the exact number which they rescued in the whole of the last war, from 4th. August 1914 to nth. November 19i8. In no...
Category: Articles
The Fishing Trawler Fairway
Trawler broken down A FISHING TRAWLER, Fairway, broken down and drifting towards shore about eight miles south of Lyme Regis was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0032 on Saturday December 2, 1978. The...
DIVE BOAT SINKS
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 15 NOVEMBER
When a dive boat with three divers ran aground, the Kyle of Lochalsh crew rushed to the rescue. Finding the divers safe on the rocks, the crew decided to wait for the tide to flood before towing the...
Category: Services