LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Her Ninety-First Year
Miss E. L. Davenport, of Rhyl, who has collected in her Welsh costume for twenty-one years. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tumbleweed
Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...
Twenty-Five Years As Chairman
IN May of this year Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., completed twenty-five years as chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
There have been, including him, eight chairmen in the 124 years since the Institution...
Category: Articles
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Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...
Ann Grace (1)
POINT OF AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and HOYLAKE (CHESHIRE). — On the 21st February, during a whole gale from W.
with a very heavy sea, intelligence was received that rockets were being fired in the direction of Lime Wharf. The Point...
Naiad
On the 27th October, at abont 7 P.M., the brig Naiad, of Whitby, bound from London to Hartlepool, in ballast, was endeavouring to enter Hartlepool Harbour, but owing to the easterly gale blowing at the time, and a very heavy sea, she...
Membership News
And talking of parrots...
What does the word 'polylope' mean to you, apart from two love-struck parrots setting out on a new life together? In fact it represents an opportunity for significant cost savings to the...
Category: Articles
Professor Edgar A. Pask
The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...
Category: Awards
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STUDENTS STRANDED STUDENTS stranded on Calf Island, four miles west south west of Port Erin, I.o.M., led to the Port Erin life-boat going to their assistance on 21st May.
The motor vessel, which took them to the island,...
Armina
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 11.5 on the night of the 1st of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen seven miles to the south- ward, and at 11.50 the life-boatMichael Stephens put out in a calm sea and light breeze....