LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alhena
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.45 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with two people on board was ashore on the Shingles.
As the weather was deteriorating, the...
Miss Pixie Matthews
The R.N.L.I, is the poorer through the death of Miss Pixie Iatthews. The daughter of the well-known actor, the late A. E. Matthews, she gave 10 years of whole-hearted service to the committee of the Shrewsbury branch. Whether she was...
Category: Obituaries
Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale
ON the 27th of October, 1959, the day on which the Moelfre life-boat carried out the service which earned her cox- swain the gold medal, the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, life-boat also per- formed an outstanding service in ex- ceptionally...
Category: Services
Helsinki 1975
The Twelfth International Life-boat Conference will be held in Helsinki in the first week of June, 1975..
Category: Meetings
Norah Cadman at Blackpool
Norah Cadman at Blackpool The D class lifeboat was kindly provided by the generous bequest of Mrs Norah Cadman, in memory of the late Norah and Harry Cadman.
Colonel Alan Niekirk, member of the RNLI Committee of Management,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. William McDowell, showing the 60- feet motor life-boat at New Brighton,...
Category: Advertisement
A Canoe
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1957, the Cockburnspath coastguard telephoned a report that a canoe had capsized about four hundred yards from the beach just north of Cock- burnspath. At 2.40 the...
Vidonia
YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The William Beckett of Leeds Life-boat was launched at noon on the 15th February to the aid of the barquentine Vidonia, of Bridport, bound from Pernambuco with a cargo of sugar, which had stranded on the bar during a fresh...
Morning Star
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL REFLOATED Wick, Caithness-shire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 27th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Morning Star was ashore at Proudfoot.
The...
Fishing Boats
Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 23rd of November, 1953, local fishing boats put to sea, but at 11.30 the coastguard reported that condi- tions at the harbour bar were danger- ous. At 11.45 the life-boat Howard D., on temporary duty at...