LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club Past-President, Hands Over a Cheque for £18,000 Towards a New Life-Boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (Left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League Head
Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club past-president, hands over a cheque for £18,000 towards a new life-boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League headquarters, St. James's. The money was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The photograph at the top of the page shows ex-Coxswain Richard Evans, of Moelfre, Anglesey, the holder of two gold medals, and ex-Mechanic/Second Coxswain Evan Owen, also of the Moelfre boat, stepping ashore
The photograph at the top of the page shows ex-Coxswain Richard Evans, of Moelfre, Anglesey, the holder of two gold medals, and ex-Mechanic/Second Coxswain Evan Owen, also of the Moelfre boat, stepping ashore at Tower Pier for the reception... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Surf and turf
On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
Category: Articles
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GIRLS RESCUED Ilfracombe, Devon. At 7.55 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the police reported that two girls, missing from Lee Bay, were believed to be trying to walk to Ilfracombe around the rocks. A helicopter was airborne and at 8.10 the...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Cape Clear, Co. Cork.—On 24th • September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o'clock in the afternoon. They came from the s.s.
Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden...
Category: Services
Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain William Coull, of Girvan, Ayrshire. He was appointed coxswain on 5th May, 1960. Previously, after nearly six months as bowman, he served from September, 1956, as second coxswain. Since he joined the crew in 1956... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fisher Lass
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 12.56 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was flying distress signals off Tynemouth beach. The life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton...
Rnli National Lottery
RNLI national lottery THE TWENTY prizewinners in the RNLI's twenty-sixth national lottery, which raised more than £43,000, were drawn at Poole HQ on Tuesday July 31 by Bill Owen, one of the well-loved 'Last of the Summer...
Category: Articles
Arctic Crusader
Broken adrift THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY of Thurso was informed by Wick Coastguard at 2105 on Tuesday November 16 1982, that the trawler Arctic Crusader had broken adrift in Scrabster Harbour, close by the lifeboat station, and he was...
Richmond Castle
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 7.15 P.M.
on the 30th January, 1938, the harbourmaster reported that a vessel between Monifieth and Lady Buoy, in the mouth of the Tay, was firing distress signals.
A S.W. breeze...