LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Bronze Medal Service at Southend-On-Sea
THE Southend - on - Sea motor life- boat, Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), which had already been out in the great gale of 23rd Novem- ber, 1938, on almost continuous service for twelve hours, was again called out three days later, on...
Category: Services
Antje
The brigantine Antje, of Warsingsfehn, whilst bound from London to Plymouth with a cargo of cement on the 8th May, stranded in moderate weather, on the north-west part of the " Shingles." Her position was perceived, and as the...
Teens adrift
12 July: Four teenagers and an adult found themselves powerless when their angling boat's engine failed. They were drifting towards rocks near Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly part of the British...
Category: Articles
Sydney Dacres
On the 16th February, a boat containing part of the crew of the ship Sydney Dacres, from San Francisco to Liverpool, which had been abandoned at sea, arrived at Knightstown, in the island of Valentia, Co. Kerry. Fourteen of the crew were...
In Retirement
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Category: Advertisement
Leonidas
THE INCIDENTS which led to the launching of Angle lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth oj Leeds, on Monday, December 6, 1976, built up over several days.
On Saturday, December 4, the Greek...
I Give and Bequeath
READERS WILL FIND below suggested clauses covering bequests to the Royal National Life-boat Institution which may be of assistance to their solicitors in preparing their wills, should they decide to remember the Institution in this...
Category: Donations
A Boat
Caister, Norfolk.—About 11 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of May, 1948, four men could be seen standing by a boat on Scroby Sands two and a half miles to the south-east, and at 11.30 the motor life-boat Jose Neville was, launched. A...
Jean and Barbara
Filey, Yorkshire. — During the late afternoon of the 30th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing coble Jean and Barbara, which was overdue, with a crew of three, and at 5.23 the motor life-boat The Cuttle was...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote in- scribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards