LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Barra Island, Hebrides. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1959, the local doctor re- quested the use of the life-boat to take the coxswain's son, who was seriously ill, to hospital at South Uist. The life-...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1954, a message was received from Mizen Head asking if the life-boat would take a relief keeper and stores to the Inish- tearaght Rock lighthouse. At eleven o'clock...
Arthur Lowe
It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.
Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly...
Category: Obituaries
Lilida (1)
Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Ballyhalbert
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1958, the Portpatrick coastguard told the honor- ary secretary that the S.S. Ballyhalbert of Belfast was aground hah0 a mile north of Ardrossan. At three o'clock the...
Fitting Out of the Institution's Second Mobile Training Unit Caravan Was Undertaken By Peter Fulton (Centre) Honorary Training Consultant to the Rnli; While Work Progressed
Fitting out of the Institution's second mobile training unit caravan was undertaken by Peter Fulton (centre), honorary training consultant to the RNLI; while work progressed, the caravan was parked outside his home. Helping with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (174)
NOVEMBER 7TH . - ST IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had come down on Gwithian Beach, St. Ives Bay, but the crew got ashore unaided. - Rewards, £20 18s..
Victorine, of Ostend
Early on the morning of the 13th January, the barque Victorine, of Ostend, struck on the rocks off.
Souter Point, near Whitburn. There was a heavy wind blowing S. by E., and a very high sea on. The Thomas Wilson life-boat...
A Sailing Dinghy
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of July, 1948, information was received that a sailing dinghy from Cork had capsized in the bay between Red Buoy and Capel Island, and at 6.15 the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah...