LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Irex
About midday on the 8th March, the fishing-boat Irex, belonging to Port Patrick, became unmanageable in the S.W. gale and strong tide. As it was seen she could not make the harbour, the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3 was sent...
Life-Boat Wedding
IN 1957 Miss Christine Ford, who was then aged 15, became the youngest honorary secretary of a financial branch. The branch was Portslade in Sussex. Her parents are both enthusiastic supporters of the life-boat service and for many months... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Panacea
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 10.20 on the morning of the 29th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a message had been re- ceived from the Galloper lightvessel that the auxiliary yacht Panacea, which was just astern...
Nicolette
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 6th of May, 1955, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to call attention to the position of a sailing yacht in Falmouth Bay. He later stated that she might need help as the weather was bad. At...
Snowflake
On the even- ing of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that a schooner, about one mile N.E. of Holyhead breakwater, was dragging her anchor and flying a dis- tress signal. Some of her sails had been blown away. The motor life-boat A.E.D....
Naess Pioneer
Penlee, Cornwall. On the 16th Decem- ber, 1961, the port medical officer in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Naess Pioneer of London, which was 120 miles from the Scilly Isles, was making for Mounts Bay to land her master...
Trust
Longhope, Orkneys-At 7.44p.m. on ist April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v.
Trust of Stromness was ashore at Haven, Stroma Island, Pentland Firth, and required the assistance of the life...
Mercantile Credit
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Category: Advertisement
Mrs Molly Forcer-Evans,
Mrs Molly Forcer-Evans, founderchairman of the of the Llangefni branch. Mrs Forcer-Evans first supported the RNLI as a member of the Anglesey County Committee, in 1956 she became flag day organiser in Llangefni and in 1969 the branch formed...
Category: Obituaries
Pigganin
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.13 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white yacht was in difficulties with a broken rudder 15 miles off Anvil point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 11.32 in a...