LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spanish Awards: Presentations at Ilfracombe
AT the annual meeting, the Duke of San Lucar la Mayor, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, announced the awards which the Spanish Life-boat Society had made for the rescue of 23 lives from the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu in the Bristol...
Category: Awards
Buttons After All!
IN the report of Life-boat Day in Greater London, in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that for the first time no buttons had been found in the collecting boxes. But buttons were, after all, given for the help of the Service—but...
Category: Articles
Rnli Medina 35 from Page 19
from page 19 modern lifeboat engines, so that they will continue to operate normally after a capsize. Access is by watertight hatches and ample ventilation trunks keep the engine room unusually cool; these trunks go right down to the bottom...
Category: Articles
A Gannet Aircraft (1)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Actuality
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On Friday the 3rd of February, 1950, the motor vessel Actuality of London, on passage from Drogheda to Sunderland, entered Peterhead Bay to shelter from bad weather. Being short of food, she sent a boat ashore in...
Seven Lifeboatmen from Newhaven Sheerness and Portsmouth
Seven lifeboatmen from Newhaven, Sheerness and Portsmouth, attended the Annual National Service for Seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 17. Coxswain/ Mechanic Leonard Patten of Newhaven lifeboat, was the RNLI colour bearer,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Yacht
12th August. The motor yacht Pathfinder, of New York, got ashore, but the crew were rescued by the Board of Trade rocket apparatus from Reculvers.—Rewards, £14 4s..
Great Yarmouth & Gorleston-Atlantic 21 Joseph B Press
Miranda Mannings Press, daughter of the donor of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new lifeboat, names the Atlantic 21 watched by Neal Duffield, the station's honorary secretary. (Photo Great Yarmouth Mercury). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Welsh Lady
EIGHT MEN TAKEN OFF FISHING VESSEL Rhyl, Flintshire. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that the fishing vessel Welsh Lady had left early that morning with a party of eight...
Hausa
FEB. 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore on the end of Spurn Point. The coxswain immediately went to the beach, where he saw the steam trawler HAUSA, of...