LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary
During the afternoon of 24th October information was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse that two men had landed there from the small fishing boat Mary, of Clacton, as the strong northerly wind and rough sea prevented them from returning...
Large Crowds Gathered Four Times a Day to Watch the Combined RAF and RNLI Rescue Displays.
Large crowds gathered four times a day to watch the combined RAF and RNLI rescue displays.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th. January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that during the past...
Category: Meetings
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Dover, Kent.—At 11.48 on the night of the 9th of March, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a woman had scrambled down a cliff near St.
Margaret's Bay. She had gone down to comfort her dog, which had fallen...
Life-Boat Stamp Club
As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....
Category: Donations
A Dinghy
Brothers found in failing light Brothers Aran and Marcus Farrell were fortunate to survive after the dinghy capsized in strong winds off Downderry and they tried to swim ashore in fading light. Looe lifeboat was alerted and quickly located...
Sennen Cove—A Correction
IN the account of the naming ceremony of the Sennen Cove life-boat in the last issue of the journal, it was said that the ceremony had been arranged by Mr. Barrie Bennetts, the honorary secretary of the station, and the local committee. It...
Category: Inaugurations
Imperial Interest:
Imperial interest: His Imperial Highness Prince Naruhito, grandson of the Emperor of Japan, paid a private visit in July to Moelfre lifeboat station on Anglesey. After meeting station and guild officials, the Prince was taken to sea in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Parkside
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.— Signals of distress being shown by the brigantine Parkside, of Dundalk, on the 11th May, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a heavy sea, the Life-boat Mary Isabella put off to her a-sistance at 9.55 A.M....
Two Fishing Boats
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 14th September the William Sugden Life-boat was despatched to the assistance of two fishing-boats which had been overtaken when on the lee side of Calf Island by a gale from the north-west and a heavy sea,...