LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (1)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
Hard Graft And Glamour
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In 1947
IN 1947 life-boats went out to the help of vessels in distress 587 times and rescued 427 lives. • There were fewer launches, and fewer lives rescued, than in 1946, but these two years are together the busiest that the Lifeboat Service has...
Category: Services
Lucy and a Speed Boat
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 8. Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury and District Branch
MAJOR ARTHUR THOMAS FISHER founded the Salisbury Branch of the Institution in 1910, has been its Honorary Secretary ever since, and is still its Honorary Secretary at the great age of eighty.
Born on May Day in 1843, he is...
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Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Two Tractor Launches: Donna Nook and Bridlington
At 7.45 on the morning of 11th February, with a strong wind and a very heavy sea, the Donna Nook Life-boat was, called out to the help of the steam ' trawler Dinorah, which was in distress off Haile Flat. The Boat was success- fully...
Category: Services
"Private benevolence, energy, and zeal."
The following paragraph first appeared in THE TIMES on 20th February, 1866.
It was printed again in THE TIMES on i$th February, 1966: (Royal National Life-boat Institution) Nothing, in fact, that the Government could do...
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List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1908—continued
The late Miss A. W. Clarke Hall
Amount of Gift or Legacy: 7,571 18 7
Date received. 1906-7
For building and...
Category: Donations
"Heroes of the Sea." Over a Thousand Pounds Made by a Life-Boat Film
Over a Thousand Pounds made by a Life-boat Film.
IN 1930 British International Pictures made a film called " The Lady from the Sea," in which the principal inci- dent was a life-boat rescue. Part of the scenes...
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