LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yvonne Risager
TWO HOUR WAIT BEFORE ENTERING HARBOUR Dunbar, East Lothian. At. 6.15 on the evening of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the life-boat coxswain had been told by the skipper of...
Pwllheli Naming Ceremony
THE new Pwllheli life-boat was named Katherine and Virgoe Buckland at Pwllheli on the 20th of August.
Captain R. E. Thomas, chairman of the Pwllheli branch, was in the chair.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, R.N.R...
Category: Inaugurations
William Andrew
In re- sponse to a telephone message stating that a schooner was in distress off Formby with her sails torn and her topmast carried away, the steam Life- boat Queen was sent out. On arriving at the place indicated, they found the schooner...
Grazia
NOV. 19TH. - MARGATE, KENT. The coastguard had reported a vessel sinking by enemy action about seven miles north-east of Margate. A strong north-west wind was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat arrived at the position given but found...
A Life-Boat Crew at Stockport
THIS year marks the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the formation of the Stock- port crew of life-boat auxiliaries. In 1936 three young men were asked to collect on Stockport life-boat day. The following year they were asked again and with a...
Category: Donations
Camper & Nicholsons Ltd
Four of the new 48ft. lifeboats for the R.N.L.I. are being built by Camper & Nicholsons Ltd The R.N.L.I. must have the best.
Category: Advertisement
Fishing Yawls
A S.S.E.
gale suddenly arose on the 26th May and a nasty broken sea got up very quickly. At about 2 P.M. it was seen that a number of yawls belonging to Crail, which had been working lobster creels, were in difficulties on...
Leicester Ladies' Guild
George Smith, international flower arranger and author, completes a large decoration at a flower arranging demonstration organised by Leicester ladies' guild at the Grand Hotel, Leicester. The evening, attended by 450 people, raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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22nd June. A patient who had escaped from the Dorset County Mental Hospital swam out to a rock surrounded by the sea, in order to escape from the nurses, but was swept off by the rising tide and swam ashore again.—Rewards, £4 7s....
Balance Sheet. 31st December, 1892
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To Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fnnd:— Balance from 1891 7 15 9 Dividends received in 1892 49 10 - 57 5 9 Amount expended thereout 13 10 5 43 15 4 „ Blake Life-boat Reward...
Category: Accounts