LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pounds Per Head
Children at the 217-pupil infant school at Marston Green, managed to raise £50 for the RNLI and have also bought souvenirs amounting to £150.
The photograph shows a group of the children presenting a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sporting Auction
The directors of Alston Limestone Company held a sponsors evening at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, in December to raise funds for RNLI Whickham branch.
A charity auction was held offering many items including... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...
Category: Articles
Dutch Thanks
The Netherlands Ministers for Shipping and Foreign Affairs have sent the thanks of their government to the Life-boat Institution and "the gallant crews of its life-boats for the services during the war by which the lives of a great...
Category: Articles
Scarborough Life-Boat Puts Out to Escort Fishing Boat
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Felix
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th April a vessel was observed stranded on Burnham Flats, but she suddenly disappeared. At 7 o'clock the Life-boat Lily Bird was launched in a heavy sea and a strong N.
wind,...
Brawn teams fund new London lifeboat
Formula One mastermind Ross Brawn has inspired teams from some of London’s leading companies to raise £360,000 in just 8 months, most of which will be used to fund a new E class lifeboat for the River Thames.
The...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Roumelian & The S.S. Nazaire
At 5.40 P.M. on 15th May the Ventnor Coastguard telephoned Brooke and Yarmouth that the s.s. Roumelian, of Liverpool, bound laden from London to Alexandria, had been in collision with the s.s. St. Nazaire about twenty- four miles S.E. by E....
Happy Return
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.55 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1959, a message was received from the signal station that the local fishing boat Happy Return with a crew of two had left harbour at noon on the previous day and had not...
Emma Louise
At 2 P.M.
on the 7th March the schooner Emma Louise, of Wick, bound to the Tyne with a cargo of paving stones, but then lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, showed signals of distress, the crew fear- ing she would drive...