LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cut Off By the Tide. Two Bronze Medals for Clovelly Life-Boatmen
ON the evening of the 30th of August, 1948, two young Americans were swimming and wading round Baggy Point in North Devon. One of them was the son of Mr. Negley Farson, the author, the other was a photographer on the staff of the American...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
A sponsored swim on February 25 by the Gold Fish Swimming Club, part of Bromley Society for Handicapped People, raised £267 for the RNLI, as well as a similar amount for their own association. Five severely handicapped people took part...
Category: Articles
Nostalgia Direct
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A Mid-Winter Service
By Major-General the Rt. Hon. John E. Bernard Seeley, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
[Major-General Seely has been a Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution for over twenty-eight years.
He has...
Category: Services
Coxswain Blogg Twice Rams the Bulwarks of the Wreck, and So Gets the Life-Boat Right Under the Rigging, Where the Two Men Are
Coxswain Blogg Twice Rams The Bulwarks of the Wreck and So Gets The Life-Boat Right Under The Rigging Where The Two Men Are. First One and Then The Other Jumps Aboard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saving lives overseas
An estimated 1.2M people drown every year across the world – about the same number who die of malaria. Despite the scale of the problem, relatively little has been done to tackle it – until now
Category: Articles
Dave Jones
Dave Jones (right) pictured with Trevor Gifford performing his final duty as President of the Australian Volunteer Coastguard by exchanging pennants. See story, left.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dun Na Ri
Fishing boat with engine trouble A MEMBER OF BALTIMORE, Co. Cork, lifeboat crew informed the deputy launching authority at about 1310 on Tuesday, November 11, 1975, that the fishing boat Dun Na Ri was in difficulty with engine trouble east...
Dijon and Peebles (1)
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
A French Matinee In Aid of the Institution
IT is a far cry from the snows of Russia to tke sands of the Sahara, and as far a cry from the Sahara to the coasts of the British Isles. But experiments are now being made to see if a device originally designed for motor transport over the...
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