LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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OCTOBER 6TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A vessel had been reported in distress off the south-west corner of the Island of Skye, but nothing could be found, and after spending the night at Carbost, the life-boat, which was in...
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DOCTOR TAKEN TO ISLAND Galway Bay. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 6th January, 1962, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Inishere Island to attend an urgent medical case. As there was no...
Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club Past-President, Hands Over a Cheque for £18,000 Towards a New Life-Boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (Left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League Head
Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club past-president, hands over a cheque for £18,000 towards a new life-boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League headquarters, St. James's. The money was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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HORSES IN WATER The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At ip.m.on i8thOctober, 1964, the coxswain of the life-boat was told that two horses had entered the sea at Southend, The Mumbles, and were swimming away from land. Several local boats tried to...
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JANUARY 14TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 6.55 A.M. a message was received from the Hope Cove coastguard that a vessel half a mile S.S.W. of Hamstone Rock required help. A light easterly breeze was blowingand the sea was smooth....
Open House!
The weather couldn't have been more perfect when the Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes opened its doors to the public on 31 July and 1 August! The Open Days, celebrating the ILC's 25th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the Atlantic...
Category: Articles
London Life-Boat Flag Day
As we go to press we are enabled to state that Life-boat Flag Day held throughout London on the 19th May was a great success, in spite of the fact that, unfortunately, the Y.M.C.A. had held their Hut Day on the 16th.
It is...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (From Page 47)
(from page 47) east, near gale force 7, the sea moderate; visibility was good.
The honorary medical adviser could not embark as he was already at an emergency, but the injured man had been tended by a member of La Quintals...
Category: Services
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FEBRUARY 3RD . - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At about 2.30 P.M. information was received from a resident at Bresay Island that two of his sons had gone across to Noss Island about twelve days before to look after sheep. On account...
A Wireless Appeal
On March 4th., the I2ist. birthday of the. Life-boat Service, Lord Winster, a member of the Committee of Management, made an appeal for it on the air.
This appeal was "The Week's Good Cause" in the home...
Category: Articles