LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sixty-Two Rescued
ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...
Category: Services
The S.S. Bilsdale, of Middlesbrough
DECEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 26th of October the S.S. Bilsdale, of Middlesbrough, ran ashore two miles north-west of Cley. The motor life-boat Foresters Centenary went to her help, but the master declined...
Pilot Me
FISHING COBLE AT SEA At 11.15 a-m- on 3otn October, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Pilot Me was at sea in very bad weather, and the coxswain thought that she would have difficulty in returning...
New Member of Committee of Management
SIR ERIC SEAL, K.B.E., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Works, and Chairman of the Civil Service Life- boat Fund, has been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution.
After service in the R.A.F. during...
Category: Committee
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND
The annual report of the Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund for 1969 discloses that the total subscription received last year amounted to £28,623. This was a record. While the increase constituted arrears from the previous...
Category: Articles
The Naming Ceremony at Gorleston on 17th May, 1967, of the New 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat Khami
The naming ceremony at Gorleston on 17th May, 1967, of the new 44-foot steel life-boat Khami. This was given by Mr. & Mrs. T. 6- Bedwell.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Line-Throwing Gun: Use In Japan
THE Line-throwing Gun, which was designed for the Institution in 1922 by the B.S.A., and which is now installed on all Motor Life-boats, except those of the lightest type, has been widely adopted in Japan. There it is being used not only by...
Category: Articles
Neco Marine Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Cav Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
In the Nick of Time
The Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Coxswain J. Mercer, of Walmer, for taking the life-boat across the Goodwin Sands by night in a rough sea and -rescuing the crew of 13 of a naval launch. At times there was only a...
Category: Articles