LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Holborn Head
At 1 a.m. on 27th July, 1968, the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No.
31) was launched to search for the motor boat Holborn Head, with two people on board, which was overdue on passage from Stromness to...
A Sailing Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, tne coastguard told the honorary sec- retary of a message received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized off Butlin's holiday camp. The life-boat...
House-To-House Collections Act, 1939
UNDER the new House-to-House Collections Act, which came into operation on the 1st March, 1940, all collections made from house to house or door to door are controlled by regulations and licences issued by the police.
The...
Category: Articles
New Lifeguard Towers Being Installed This Summer (pictured)
For the RNLI, going ‘green’ is not about fl aunting ecoworthiness.
There are sound economic and common-sense principles behind the trial of the PowerEd, a combination mini wind turbine, solar panel and weather sensor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Milton Lockhart
A Successful service was performed by the Life-boat B. Wood, of this station, on the 26th January, on which occasion 15 men were saved from the barque Milton Lockhart, of North Shields. It was blowing fresh with a heavy sea at the time of...
Royal Gate
AFTER A COLLISION At 6.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the motor vessel Royal Gate had been in collision one mile west of Chequer buoy and was making for the beach in a moderate...
Harry
.—At 2.45 A.M., on the 13th March, the Coast- guard reported by telegram that flares were being burnt off Porthcurnow, close to the shore. The Life-boat Ann Newbon was launched, and when near Porth- curnow they observed a flare. They ...
The Glasgow Ball
The Duke'and Duchess of Monlrose, the Earl and Countess of Glasgow, Cameron of Lochiel, the Marquis of Graham, Lady Helen Graham and other guests.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
La Voyageuse
Torbay, Devon - At 3.33 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor cruiser had gone aground on the rocks south of Mansands. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 6.45 to...
The Central Appeals Committee
A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and...
Category: Committee