LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Record at Baltimore
A small girl was startled to see someone placing a cheque for £100 in her collecting box during the R.N.L.I. flag day collection at Baltimore. With the help of this cheque, a record collection was made at Baltimore for the...
Category: Donations
Nimble Eve
VELLUM FOR DUNGENESS COXSWAIN On the 7th of August, 1962, the Dungeness life-boat rescued the crew of five of the trimaran Nimble Eve. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 344, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
On the 9th of September, 1955, the Is lay, Inner Hebrides, life-boat rescued three men from a lobster fishing boat.
For a full account of this service, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were...
Gala Cheque
Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew and gala committee hand over a cheque for £5,000 to Kieran Nash, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Scotland. Proceeds were from Anstruther gala day which was held on 13 July 1996..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Tone Vale Lodge,
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gallantry at 67
Coxswain James Watkins of Angle, Pembrokeshire, who won the bronze medal for gallantry fifteen years ago, has now won the silver medal for rescuing six of the crew of a small motor ship which had turned turtle in a gale. Some of the men were...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore,...
Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, J.P., of Nottingham, a Member of the Committee of Management
Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, a member of the Committee of Management and the Chairman of the Nottingham and District Branch, died on 30th January last, and the Committee deeply regret i the loss of a most valued colleague....
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Boats
At 11.2 A.M.
on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...
Demetra
BERWICK - on - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—On Sunday morning the 1st June, while a north-easterly gale was raging, accompanied by a heavy sea, the coastguard look-out man observed a barque, about six miles off, flying signals...