LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
TheAustrian Steamer Bathori
On. Sunday, the 5th December, at 7.10 A.M. the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3 was launched, a mounted messenger having arrived with intelligence that a vessel was showing signals of distress in Larbrax Bay, six miles N. of Port...
Bacchus
Rescue from the Rocks RED FLARES sighted in a position one and a half miles south east of St Helier, Jersey, were reported to the deputy launching authority of the St Helier Station by a member of the public at8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September...
Sela
During a whole N.E. by N. gale on the 12th January an exciting scene was witnessed on the beach at North Deal. At about 7 o'clock flares were observed from a sinking vessel, which had been in col- lision and was then lying less than a...
A Cabin Cruiser
ILB DAMAGED BY CASUALTY A MESSAGE was received at 7.05 p.m. on 3rd October, 1971, at Mumbles, Glamorganshire, that a man was probably marooned in a boat in Mumbles Bay. While investigating this report, the Coastguard sighted red flares 13...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To HENRY G. BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., on hig retirement, after serving for thirty-seven and three-quarter years as coxswain and seven and a quarter years as second coxswain of the Cromer life-boats, a coxswain's certificate of service and an...
Category: Awards
A Swedish Presentation
THE Swedish Life-boat Society has awarded to the Institution its plaque of merit and two diplomas, each of which has this record: Swedish Life-boat Society pre- sents to the Royal National Life-boat Institution its plaque of merit for out-...
Category: Awards
Mercury Direct.
Monet's Masterpiece For just £169 you can spend a three day break visiting some lovely gardens in Northern France, including world famous Monet's Garden at Givemy.
The superb flower beds and archways of...
Category: Advertisement
Two's Company and Martlett
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 1.16 p.m.
on 3rd August, 1969, the police informed the coxswain that the yachts Two's Company and Martlett, each with a crew of two, were in difficulties near Rock Channel off New...
Letters
COINS AND STAMPS 0 Many thanks for putting my article on coins and stamps in the October Journal. One small point is that we gave the prices as at September, 1972, whereas they were September 1971. As forecast, the common varieties have...
Category: Correspondence
Georges Langanay
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.22 -on the night of the 10th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the Humber Radio Station had inter- cepted a message from the French motor trawler Georges Langanay, of Fe'camp. She was on the...