LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At Earls Court Ravmond Baxter
At Earls Court, Ravmond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee, presented RNLI Public Relations awards to Alun Richards, the author (second from left, back row I. BBC Wales and The Mumbles lifeboat station for their various... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bonnie Lass
THURSO, — Flare lights were burnt by the schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick, bound for Castle Hill, in ballast, which was riding in Scrabster Eoadstead, during a violent gate from the N.W., and a terrible sea on the 2nd February. The Life-boat...
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Life-boat Rescue from the Land.
THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Lifeboat Station was situated at the end...
A Gallant Rescue of Bathers
ON the evening of 21st June, 1938, two women bathers at Bettystown, Co.
Meath, Eire, were swept seaward on a rubber mattress by a strong offshore wind. The sea was choppy. Several men went at once to their rescue....
Category: Articles
Belgian Trawler In Distress Off Kentish Coast
AT 2.24 on the morning of the llth January, 1962, the Deal coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Margate life-boat station, Mr. H. B.
Fleet, that a small vessel had been seen by the Dutch motor vessel...
Category: Services
The 'Loony Dook'
Over 40 hardy swimmers walked througth the streets of South Queensferry, led by a pipe band for the 11th annual 'Loony Dook' - swimming in the Firth of Forth on the 1 January-. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Armed Trawler Olvina
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
At 7.30 P.M. it was learned from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore under St. Albans Head. The sea was calm, but there was a very thick fog. The motor lifeboat Thomas Markby was...
Coxswain Cross Again.
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, has won the Institution's gold medal for the second time since the war began. He has won it for rescuing the crew of a trawler which had stranded on a sandbank in a gale. There were heavy snow...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (2)
Bridlington, Yorkshire. On the 12th of May, 1960, nine local motor fishing boats put to sea at four o'clock in the morning to enable the fishermen to attend to their crab pots. A fresh easter- ly wind was blowing, and during the morning...
Member No 50000
The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., thinks that the idea of creating a form of membership of the Institution for individual supporters is a very good scheme that would give subscribers a sense of participation. He has...
Category: Articles