LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Recognise Him? He Is Mr. Kenneth H. H. Baily, of Queensbury Mansions, Bournemouth, the Leading England Football Team Supporter Who Is Also a Keen Supporter of the Life-Boat Service at Bourn
Recognise him? He is Mr. Kenneth H. H. Baily, of Queensbury Mansions, Bournemouth, the leading England football team supporter who is also a keen supporter of the life-boat service at Bournemouth. It was expected that he would find... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Annual Presentation
blLVhK MkUALb FOR GALLENTRY Coxswain Peter Bisson, St Peter Port - 29 August 1992 Coxswain Bisson and his crew braved force 9 winds and 15-20ft seas to snatch six yachtsmen to safety from the Sena Sioria. During the rescue the yacht's...
Category: Awards
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President— VICE-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S.
Chairman— THOMAS BARING, ESQ., M.P., V.P....
Category: Advertisement
Portrush: Pulling and Sailing to Fast Afloat Arun By Joan Davies
AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
Category: Articles
St Simeon (2)
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
A Sailboard
Enjoyable sail turns into near disaster Windsurfer Christopher Long was out enjoying a brisk sail last September when gear failure disabled his board and he spent three hours in the water. When Eastbourne's inshore lifeboat picked him up...
Memories of Sir William Hillary
Manx Memories and Movements, by Samuel Norris, Isle of Man: The Norris Modern Press, Ltd., 12s. 6d.
MR. NORRIS is an English journalist who, in 1894, when not yet twenty years old, landed in the Isle of...
Category: Articles
The Billy Boy Annie
About 12.20 P.M. on the 10th February the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat observed the Billy-boy Annie, of Grimsby, being towed over the bar outward bound, when the tow-rope suddenly broke and the Billy- boy drifted rapidly towards the North...
Obituaries
Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: FEBRUARY 1990 Miss Betty Dennis, committee member of Barnstaple branch from 1960 to 1972, when she was elected president until her death. Mrs Dennis was awarded a silver badge in...
Category: Obituaries
Channel Islands By Joan Davies
Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...
Category: Articles