LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aith, Shetlands. At 3.10 p.m. on 5th October, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient on Foula was seriously ill and needed urgent hospital treatment. At 3.35, when the doctor boarded the life-boat, the John and...
Margate: (Left) With the Floor Broken Up By Waves Inside of Lifeboat House Stands Open to the Sea Slipway Can Be Seen on Left Photograph By Courtesy of Christopher
Margate: (Left) With the floor broken up by waves, inside of lifeboat house stands open to the sea. - View image in PDF
Slipway can be seen on left. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Christopher Fright. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ketch Sualidaz Under Tow By the New Fab 3 Prototype Off Portland Bill the Service Was the First Carried Out By the New Boat Which Was on Familiarisation Trials
The ketch Sualidaz under tow by the new FAB 3 prototype off Portland Bill. The service was the first carried out by the new boat, which was on familiarisation trials at the time. - View image in PDF
(Photo Stuart Welford). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Auld Reekie
This Life-boat again did excellent ser- vice on the 21st October. Soon after dark on that day the schooner Auld 'Reekie, bound from Middlesborough to Barcelona with pitch, got ashore on the North Gare, at the entrance of the Biver Tees....
The S.S. Dahomey
HOLYHEAD. — The s.s. Dahomey, of London, bound from Liverpool for West Africa, with a general cargo, stranded on the rocks between the breakwater and the North Stack in a thick fog, on the night of the 6th April. On receipt of intelligence...
Right: New Year's Day Also Saw Revellers Taking the Plunge at the Annual Loony Dook
Right: New Year's Day also saw revellers taking the plunge at the annual Loony Dook in the Firth of Forth. Alice KenneCy gets a helping hand from South Queensferry lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left: Olympic Athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson Obe,
Left: Olympic athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson OBE, who gave the vote of thanks, was presented with a bouquet of flowers by Alice Bewick, daughter of Bronze Medal winner, Amos Bewick. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Halfpennies and Farthings
FOR the seventh year running the Institution has received from a lady in Hampstead a gift of all the halfpennies she had collected during the year— 370.
, It has also received a three months' collection of halfpennies...
Category: Donations
A Steamer
28th October.
A steamer had wirelessed for help in a strong N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, but*the life-boat failed to find her.
She was found and helped by the Whitby motor life-boat, which stood by...
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.
IN the Queen's first Birthday Honours Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the Committee of Management, was appointed a Knight of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his public services as "Chairman of the Isle...
Category: Awards