LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts In Gratitude for Services
On the 28th September, 1929, the Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued the crew, twenty in number, of a cutter belonging to H.M.S. Marl- borough. In appreciation of this service the Canteen Fund of H.M.S. Marlborough has given £22 to the...
Category: Donations
The Inaugural Ceremony of the Buckie Motor Life-Boat
THIS Motor Life-boat went from Cowes to her Station by sea in August, 1922, but it was found necessary to postpone the actual ceremony of inaugurating the boat until the spring of this year. The Boat is of the Watson type, 45 feet by 11 feet...
Category: Inaugurations
Annual Report. 1911
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Thursday, the 16th day of March, 1911, The Eight Honourable the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., G.B., in the...
Category: Annual Reports
Willowbrook
A Willowbrook reclines, relaxes, lifts and massages...
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Category: Advertisement
Jessie
ONE MAN IN A BARGE RESCUED Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.20 in the morn- ing of the 15th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel at anchor three miles south-west from Bill Tower Look-out was flying a distress signal. A moderate...
Apapa
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.55 A.M. on the 30th October, 1937, the Penzance coastguard telephoned that the small motor boat Apapa, with one man on board, was missing from Newlyn.
A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea...
The S.S. Guildford
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Guildford, of London, which was off Southwold, was making for Gorleston to land a man who...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.15 onthe evening of the 29th of March, 1954, the Orlock Head coastguard rang up to say that a keeper in the Maidens lighthouse was ill. He asked if the life-boat would take a relief man to it and land the patient...
The S.S. Cornwood
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the police informed the life-boat coxswain that the S.S. Corn- wood, of Hartlepool, outside the harbour, had a sick man aboard in urgent need of help,...
Two Canoes
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.6 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1960, the coast- guard learnt from the police that two canoes had capsized in Breydon Water.
This information was passed by the...