LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Motor Vessel Baradrangur
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH FEBRUARY 8TH. - FRASER-BURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. In the night the Danish motor vessel Baradrangur, of Trangisvoag, with a crew of five, went ashore on the sandsto the south of Fraserburgh. Very heavy seas were...
Invitation Only'
Invitation only.' By kind invitation of the crew, members of the Weymouth ladies' guild enjoyed a trip on the Weymouth lifeboat while she was on an exercise. The trip was intended as a token of thanks from the crew for all the hard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer helped 4,500 people during the summer of 1974 and saved from certain death 650.
The French lifeboat service is much occupied with the modernisation of its fleet. St Tropez lifeboat,...
Category: Articles
Finance In 1942: Income.
Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...
Category: Articles
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Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 27th December, 1961, the medical officer of health for Shet- land rang up the honorary secretary to say that a three-year-old girl on Fair Isle was believed to have...
Where Is Everybody?
Where is everybody? This lonely collector was one of the many who collected in Chichester on Saturday 22 July. Even though the collector was suitably dressed in shorts for the very hot weather, most of the public appeared to be at the beach!... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dudley Branch
Following the loss of Penlee lifeboat in 1981, Dudley branch launched an appeal as a tribute to Mrs Mary Richards, mother of the late Coxswain Trevelyan Richards. A cheque for the £5,396.83 raised, which will go towards the purchase of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shipwreck Off Brighton
ON the 10th October last at an early hour the inhabitants of Brighton were aroused from their beds by the report of an approach- vious to the life-boats reaching the wreck, several rockets with lines attached had been fired under the...
Category: Services
Pass of Leny
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
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Plymouth, Devon. At 10.23 on the night of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that some swimmers were in difficulties near the Mewstone islet on the eastern side of the entrance to the harbour. The...