LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Southern African Branch.
At a meeting in Capetown on February 22nd., 1942, with the Mayor presiding, a Southern African Branch of the Institution was formed. The Governor- General of the Union is its patron, Field-Marshal Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union, is its...
Category: Articles
The "Winston Churchill"
THERE are at present on the coast seven motor life-boats which have been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund. An eighth is to be added to them before the end of the year, the 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat which is now...
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The S.S. Circassian Prince (1)
PALLING AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— Daring a strong breeze from W.N.W., a heavy sea, and thick weather on the night of the 21st March, the Palling No. 2 Life-boat British Workman and the Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Margaret proceeded to the...
The Shrimp Trawler Young Robert
GORLESTON.—Two runaway apprentices, belonging to Ramsgate vessels, put to sea in the shrimp trawler Young Robert, of Yarmouth, intending to proceed to Grimsby, early on the morning of the 16th March. The weather was thick, with rain, the...
While Brownies of the 13Th Durham I Below Left I and 9Th < Below Right) Packs Are Helping the Rnli Hy Collecting Foreign Coins the Brownies Also Took Part In a Po
. . . While Brownies of the 13th Durham I below left I and 9th below right) Packs are helping the RNLI hy collecting foreign coins. The Brownies also took part in a poster competition and the three best entries were displayed at a coffee... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blackpool Station's New Atlantic 75,
22 May 1999 - More than 400 people braved force 7 winds to take part in a double celebration at Blackpool when RNLI Chairman, David Acland, using 175th Anniversary Ale, christened the station's new Atlantic 75, Bickerstaffe, in memory of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Plymouth's Lifeboats 1803-1974 By Jeff Moiris
FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...
Category: Articles
Annabel II
Capsized motor cruiser AT 1150 ON FEBRUARY 22, Skipper Tony Meyler, on board MFV Western Seas lying alongside in Aberystwyth Harbour, was told by Peter Kokelaar that the motor cruiser Annabel II had just capsized in heavy surf near the...
Heilo
On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.
gale was blowing with a...
Albert
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 8th of March, 1956, the coast- guard reported that a body had been ?een on the north shore. It was believed to be the body of one of six men who had put off in the rowing boat Albert the night...