LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Above Loading the Rnli's Mercedes
Above. Loading the RNLI's Mercedes road train'. Driver George Dadson demonstrates how an Atlantic 21 can be loaded single-handed with the hydraulic crane.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Aberdeen Trawler Evergreen
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire On the 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen was wrecked at Rosehearty.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes rescued the crew of nine.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money...
Obituary
Since the last number of The Lifeboat appeared, the Institution has lost by death several valued friends and workers, among them the distinguished surgeon, Sir William Milligan, M.D., LL.D., J.P.,Chairman of the Manchester, Salford and...
Category: Obituaries
Veteran Worker
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, sent a telegram of congratulations to Mr. J. C. Clarke, of Gwenfro, Greystone Park, Penmaenmawr, Caerns., when he celebrated his...
Category: Committee
The Norwegian Minesweeper No. 382 (1)
MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. The Norwegian minesweeper No.
382 had been reported blown up by a mine fifteen miles off Berry Head, but no survivors were found. The Salcombe life-boat put out at midnight on the 7th...
Mr. Francis Le Boulanger, The Mumbles
Mr. Francis le Boulanger, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who died on 18th April of this year, at the age of seventy-seven, had been the honorary secretary of the life-boat station for thirty-seven years. During that time its life-boats had...
Category: Obituaries
Sea Flight
ADRIFT FOR THIRTY-ONE HOURS Minehead, Somerset. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen the cabin cruiser Sea Flight displaying a distress signal.
There...
Motor Fishing Boats
Early in the morning of the 8th January some of the motor fishing-boats put to sea, the ; weather at the time being moderate with but little wind. Later the wind shifted into the eastward and brought up a very heavy sea, causing the boats...
None (1)
GULLS MISTAKEN FOR GIRL Appledore, Devon.—At 9.27 in the morning of the 18th of August, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard reported a girl adrift on a raft in Croyde Bay, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 9,37 in a light...
Linen In Public
A naval Lieutenant-Commander sta- tioned at Portsmouth recently received his clean laundry with one pair of socks missing. He reported the matter, and got back this reply from the Laundry.
16th November,...
Category: Donations