LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sterry
PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The Lifeboat John Francis White rendered very valuable assistance to the steam launch Sterry, of Lowestoft, on Easter Sunday morning, the 3rd April. There was a strong wind blowing from the west, and the vessel was...
Maggie Smith, the Sunshine and Girl Mary
Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
Georgette
On the morning of the 14th Novem- ber the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the steam trawler Georgette, of Grimsby, was ashore on Outer Bank, about three miles north of Winterton. She was bound home from the fishing grounds with a...
A Motorised Rubber Dinghy
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.10 p.m. on 5th April, 1970, it was learnt that a motorised rubber dinghy with three skin divers aboard had run out of fuel and was drifting seaward off Dalkey island. Two of the divers had swum ashore and...
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Aith, Shetlands - At 12.45 a.m. on 3rd July, 1966, the medical authorities requested the assistance of the life-boat to take a doctor and nurse to Foula Island where someone was seriously ill. The life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane was...
Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
Category: Articles
Williamson Tea
F k. MMi M Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT TE BOAT] TEA No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal...
Category: Advertisement
To Mark More Than £10000 Raised By Devenish Brewery for the Rnli
To mark more than £10,000 raised by Devenish Brewery for the RNLI a special presentation was made by Chay Blyth, the round the world yachtsman, on behalf of the company to Rear-Admiral W. J. Graham, director RNLI, at Weymouth lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lossiemouth Guild
Artist John Todd (I) admires some of the works on show at the exhibition he mounted for three days in October at the Lesser Town Hall, Lossiemouth. With him is another exhibitor, Mr McPherson who, along with all the other artists, agreed to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Zeester
APRIL 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.35 A.M.
the coastguard reported that the St. Nicholas Light-vessel was firing guns and flying signals indicating that a vessel was in distress to the E.N.E. A light...