LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Threepenny Bits for Fifty Years
THE Institution has received a gift of 60 threepenny bits from a lady in Jarrow. She writes that she has been collecting threepenny-bits for 50 years, all of which she has sent to the Institution or put in life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
Royal Visit for Penlee Crew
HRH Princess Diana, the Duchess of Cornwall, met members of the crew of the Penlee lifeboat during her official visit to Newlyn, where she officially opened the town's new £lm fish market.
The Princess visited the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cairnie
APRIL 3RD. - ABERDEEN. At 8.33 P.M.
the steamer Cairnie, of Methil, was sounding distress signals and showing white flares on Aberdeen Bar. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 8.51...
Valhalla and a Yacht
Yacht towed in THE HIGH WINDS OF Sunday August 11, 1985, which brought about a bronze medal service at St Peter Port, Guernsey and vellum services at Weymouth and Ramsgate (already reported in earlier issues), and which involved 39 stations...
Life-Boats Given By Corporate Bodies
OF the 157 life-boats in the Institu- tion's active fleet to-day, and the 23 in the reserve fleet, only six have been built out of the general funds of the Institution. The great majority have been provided by private legacies, but there...
Category: Donations
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 -...
OUT OF REACH
A father swam out to stop his daughter drifting away in an inflatable dinghy, but couldn’t reach her. Thankfully, there were willing RNLI volunteers who could
On Saturday 30 June 2018, Blackpool Crew Members Iain...
Category: Articles
G. W. Pearns
Signals were fired from the Customs Watch House at 11.30 A.M. on the 28th March, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required. The crew of the Life-boat John Turner Turner at once assembled, the boat was launched, and in about...
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Category: Advertisement
Halloween
HOPE COVE.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was ashore at Sewer Mill Sands on the 18th January, the Alexandra Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M., and proceeded to her assistance during a strong S.E. wind and a heavy sea. She...