LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Barge (1)
SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A barge had broken away from a tug, but the life-boat found that there was no one on board her. - Rewards, £9 13s..
When Ringley Parish Church
When Ringley Parish Church, in Lancashire, held its first Festival of Flowers in July a display entitled 'The Work of the Lifeboats' was arranged by members of Farnworth and Kearsley branch. The Reverend C.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Ivy Ball,
Mrs Ivy Ball, vice president of the Wellington branch. She was founder member of the branch which formed in 1938 and secretary from 1951 to 1975. She was awarded the silver badge in 1958..
Category: Obituaries
Kay Alexander (pictured centre)
What led BBC Midlands Today presenter Kay Alexander (pictured centre) to a conviction that she must support the RNLI?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (37)
OCTOBER 2 3RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the search, in which a fishing boat also took part, was without result. - Rewards, £11 6s. 6d. (See Whitby, “Services by...
Notes of the Quarter (1)
NOTES OFTHEQUARTER (from page 355) their efforts in collecting paperback books, enough money has been raised to provide replacements in due course for the inshore lifeboats at Beaumaris, Littlehampton, North Berwick and St. Agnes. A total of...
Category: Articles
Other Celebrations In Greater London
Ashford held a Concert.
Barnes held a series of Dances, which were a great success. East Sheen held a Dance, and a Dance was organized at Erith by the local sea scouts.
Greenwich held a Whist Drive and...
Category: Articles
Westmorland
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At10.10 a.m. on 28th November, 1969, a report was received that a member of the crew of the m.f.v. Westmorland needed urgent medical attention. At 10.30 the life-boat R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings in a...
The S.S. Helfrid
Ramsgate, and Dover, Kent. — At 11.55 on the morning of the 23rd of March, 1951, a ship was seen off Rams- gate flying a signal asking for a pilot.
The coastguard reported that she had been stationary for nearly two...
A Fishing Boat and a Steamer
Torbay (Devon).
Between the 5th and the 7th December, with a strong gale blowing the whole time and a very heavy sea, the Torbay Motor Life-boat was out on service four times. She was out _for two hours on the 5th, rescuing...