LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Days In 1943.
In 1943 more branches held flag days, more people gave, and a larger sum was given than ever before. The number of days was 857, the number who gave was 10,761,000, and the sum given £131,172. That is £17,556 more than in 1942 and...
Category: Articles
Maygough
OCTOBER 1ST. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO. LOUTH. At nine at night the local motor trawler Maygough was reported to have been burning flares about seven miles north-east of Port Oriel at seven o’clock. Another trawler had gone to her help, but had not...
A Cabin Cruiser
LIFE-BOATS AND HELICOPTER IN LONG SEARCH Beaumaris, Anglesey; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 8.32 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the Beaumaris honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down off...
Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths.
Lt Cdr David Streatfield Former Aylesbury & District chairman, on 28 March.
Norman Jefferies Sherborne and District honorary treasurer and...
Category: Obituaries
Ballymena Round Table
Four members o/Ballymena Round Table took it in turns to water-ski across the Irish Sea from Cushendall to Southend, near Campbeltown.
It took them 2% hours and they raised £675 in sponsorship for Ballymena branch.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barry Dock Crew Building Takes a Short Cut to Its New Location
The Barry Dock crew building takes a short cut to its new location.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Conovium
HILBHE ISLAND.—Having received intelligence that a yawl was in a very dangerous position close to the rocks on the west side of the island, on the 24th June, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 12.40 p.m., and proceeded through a...
News from the Branches
Perth.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 19th May, the chair being taken by the Rev. P. R. Landreth, the Chairman of Committee. The Report showed that for the nine months ending the 30th Septem- ber, 1919, the-Branch had...
Category: Branches
The S.S. Lady Anne
CAISTER.—Signal guns having been fired by the lightships, the Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched at3 P.M. on the 10th January during a W.
wind and a very thick fog, and sailed to the south part of the Middle...
Wolverhampton (Left)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs