LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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.—The Motor Life-boat William Evans was launched at 1 P.M. on the 20th October, on the receipt of an urgent appeal from a nurse on Inishere Island for a doctor.
No other suitable boat was available so the Life-boat took the...
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On the 14th January there was an urgent call from Inisheer, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. A heavy sea was running and a gale was threat- ening. No boat could be found to venture out, so the motor life-boat William....
John Howard III
FOULED PROPELLER At 5.46 p.m. on 8th November, 1964,.
the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in distress i \ miles off west pier, Brighton, in a choppy sea and fresh north-easterly breeze. It was...
A Speed Boat
Life-boat 70-001. Bristol Channel - At 12.10 p.m. on 28th March, 1967, a speedboat was reported in a position one mile south of Mixon shoal buoy. There was a strong north west by westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was two hours before low...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.24 on the evening of the 8th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a bather had been cut off by the tide at Leigh-on-Sea and had boarded a boat anchored there. At 10.42 the life-boat,...
French Reward to a British Seaman
In the year 1854 a French ship, named the Aigle, was lost on the Spanish Main ; but, owing to the exertions of Captain JONES, of Portmadoc, then in command of the British ship Enterprise, the crew of the Aigle were fortunately saved. Captain...
Category: Medals
(From R) Tom Nutman Di (Scotland N) Accompanies Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet Chairman of the Search and Rescue Committee Commander Bruce Cairns C
(From r.) Tom Nutman, DI (Scotland, N.), accompanies Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, chairman of the Search and Rescue Committee, Commander Bruce Cairns, Chief of Operations, and Captain Bob Browning, BP Forties Administrative Superintendent... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE " season " of the Life-boat Saturday Collections throughout the country opened this year under very favourable auspices, and the Committees, greatly encouraged by the excellent certificate recently given to the movement by the...
Category: Articles
From Darkest Peru To
Small Paddington Bear soft toys will be on sale in branches of Barclays and Woolwich throughout the UK from 4 July-7 August 2006. They cost just £2 each and all proceeds will go to the RNLI'sTrain one, save many. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Slaney
WEXFOED.—At 9 A.M. on the 15th of January, the Civil Service No. 1 Lifeboat, manned as usual by Custom House officers and pilots, was launched to the assistance of the s.s. Slaney, of and from Liverpool for Wexford, with a general cargo,...