LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yewcroft
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 8th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Cudden Point. The life-boat Millie Walton, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.15.
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High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Valentia - Ireland Division Valentia is the RNLI's westernmost lifeboat station, situated on the rugged coast of Co. Kerry, in south west Ireland. The Severn class...
Category: Articles
"Sublime Impertinence."
OUR District Organizing Secretary in I the North of England has sent us the | following story as an example of " the i value of the sovereign and the power of ; suggestion." It is an excellent example also of the gift, invaluable...
Category: Articles
International Boat Show By Heather Deane
EARL'S COURT, LONDON, JANUARY 5 TO 15 RECORDS AGAIN BROKEN AT RNLI STAND by Heather Deane Assistant Public Relations Officer, RNLI THE SOUND OF BAGPIPES proclaimed the Scottish theme of this year's International Boat Show and further...
Category: Articles
While (Right) There Was a Close Finish for First and Second Place Between No 2 Spanish Dancer (Pat Eddery) and No Ii Mr Lucky (Willie Carson)
. . . while (right) there was a close finish for first and second place between No 2 Spanish Dancer (Pat Eddery), and No II Mr Lucky (Willie Carson).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Boat (1)
Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...
Frandor
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 4.4 on the afternoon of 21st April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had occurred aboard the motor vessel Frandor in a position four miles south- west-by-west...
None (2)
Aith, Shetlands.—At eleven on the night of the 19th of November, 1948, a doctor telephoned that one of his patients on the Island of Papa Stour had met with an accident and asked if the life-boat would take him there.
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Fishing Cobles
A number of Spittal fishing cobles put to sea early on the morning of the 24th March, when a N.E. wind sprang up, with a very heavy sea run- ning on the bar. It was seen that the small craft would have great difficulty in reaching the...
Captain G. C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.
Captain Graham C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who died on 10th December, 1931, was appointed a Member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1922. He brought to the work of the Institution considerable ex- perience in the Mercantile Marine,...
Category: Obituaries