LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Welsh Pilot's Gallantry
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribafl Aneroid Barometer to Mr.
Lionel Hunt, of Barry Dock, Glamor- ganshire, for his gallantry in rescu- ing two men from drowning. Mr.
Lionel Hunt is a Barry Channel...
Category: Awards
Rinovia
Stromness, Orkney.—During the night of the 9th—10th December, 1938, the Grimsby steam trawler Rinovia, homeward bound from fishing, and carrying a crew of nineteen, ran aground at Rusk Holm, Isle of Eday. Her signals of distress were seen by...
Nine Years After
THE coxswain at Eastbourne has received a picture postcard from Sweden: " Many hearty greetings to you and warm thanks for wonderful rescue of 1930 to all from B. Lindfors." The postcard had a picture of Trafalgar...
Category: Articles
Royal
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 5.33 A.M. on the 12th October, 1939, the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands. The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell. At 5.57 A.M. the motor...
District Conference: Greater London
A CONFERENCE of honorary workers from branches in the Greater London district was held at Life-boat House on 21st June. Representatives from sixteen branches and guilds were present, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution,...
Category: Meetings
None (1)
On the after- noon of 28th May three boys were on the cliffs at Howth Head looking for birds' nests, when one of them slipped and fell about fifty feet into the sea.
One of his companions, a boy of ten, pluckily...
Life-Boat Day at Blackpool
Ponies and carriage lent to the branch by Mr. Herbert Hagenback, of the Tower Circus, Blackpool.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sunbeam
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 19th September the pleasure motor boat Sunbeam, of Cleethorpes, took a party of fourteen to Spurn. Shortly after she had left on the return journey the signal-station watchman reported that she...
Heron
GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...
Return from Service
The Lowestoft life-boat towing in the motor-cruiser Dimajl. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs