LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crackers at Christmas
Royal Mail employee Jenny Davison went crackers at Christmas, dressing up as one and doing the rounds of the Royal Mail at Guildford. - View image in PDF
Jenny managed to pull £166.24 in a stunt which went with a bang…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Buckle, Banffshire. At 2.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1965, the life-boat Laura Moncur left her moorings in a moderate to strong south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea to relieve the Cromarty lifeboat which had been searching for fourteen...
Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A.
Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., was for many years Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution. He died at his home in Glasgow on 13th January, 1965, shortly after reaching his looth birthday. When the first experiments with motor...
Category: Obituaries
Karina II
Poole, Dorset - At 1.20 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Studland bay. The life-boat Bassett Green slipped her moorings in a fresh to strong north easterly breeze...
Awards to Coxswains
The following Awards were made to Coxswains during April, May, June and July :— To THOMAS WILLIAM JONES, on his retire- ment, after serving 11 years as Coxswain of the Aberdovey Life-boat, and, previous to that, 29 years as Second Coxswain,...
Category: Awards
A Fishing Coble
The Life-boat B. Wood, stationed at this place, went out on the 6th Feb., to rescue the crew and some fishermen who were on board the Nor- wegian ship Martha, which had stranded three days previously off Hornsea. The men were engaged...
Moss Bay (1)
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
Jim Mead Honorary Secretary of Molesey Branch Enrols His Hundredth Shoreline Member 18-Year-Old Kathryn Watson Photograph By Courtesy of John Eagle
Jim Mead, honorary secretary of Molesey branch, enrols his hundredth Shoreline member, 18-year-old Kathryn Watson. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of John Eagle. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vidonia
YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The William Beckett of Leeds Life-boat was launched at noon on the 15th February to the aid of the barquentine Vidonia, of Bridport, bound from Pernambuco with a cargo of sugar, which had stranded on the bar during a fresh...
Radio Caroline
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At n p.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had intercepted a message from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline in Ramsey Bay that there was an injured man on...