LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...
Category: Articles
Health & Home Shopping (1)
Post orders to Health & Home Shopping, Dept 4304WS, 47 Brunel Avenue, Manchester M5 4JB.
Orders usually despathced within 48 hours of order being received.
If you do not wish to receive mailings from...
Category: Advertisement
The Steam Life-Boat "Duke of Northumberland"
THE STEAM'LIFE-BOAT "DUKE OF NOBTHUMBKKLAND.".
Category: Drawings
Lytham-St.Anne's Lifeboat City of Bradford III Shortly Before She Set Out at 1535 on June 6 1981
Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat City of Bradford III shortly before she set out at 1535 on June 6, 1981, to go to the help of the yacht Morag in difficulties off South Shore. Blackpool.
photograph by courtesy of David Forshaw... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Helen Peele's Summer Cruise: 1927
By Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District.
[Each summer the Institution's steamtug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of taking the two Padstow...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Anniversary Morning Market Harborough ladies' guild celebrated its 21st anniversary year by holding a birthday coffee morning at the home of Mrs Roland Orton, president and founder of the guild.
The party was to thank...
Category: Articles
Gower Pride (1)
Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st Oct., 1874 -. ; THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of One previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Prins Boudewijn
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 7.50 a.m.
on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Belgian trawler Prins Boudewijn of Ostend had been reported on fire one mile west of St. Anne's Head. There was...
Life-Boat Services
IT is satisfactory to find that during the terrific gales of the few months that have passed of the present year, the life-boats in connection with the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have been instrumental in rescuing one hundred and...
Category: Services