LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Irish Air Force Seaplane (1)
Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.
—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.
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Traditional rivalry between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh is being used to good effect following the declared intent of Glasgow's Lord Provost, The Right Honorable Robert Gray, JP, that the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...
Category: Services
A New Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
A new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was handed over at Queensferry, Firth of Forth, on August 29, 1981. The gift of Major Basil R. F. Mac Nay in memory of his mother, Mrs Constance MacNay, she was received on behalf of the RNLI by Mr W. F. G. Lord,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., Aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight Life-Boat, With Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., Honorary Secretary, and (Below) the Duke
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight life-boat, with Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., honorary secretary, and (below) the Duke of Kent with the Bembridge crew of the 48-foot 6... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
George Treadway
In a little over five years George Treadway (1), landlord of the Victoria, Shrivenham, collected nearly £2,000 for Faringdon branch, largely through collecting boxes on either end of his single bar—and through his own infectious... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
1st July to 30th September.
Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special Life-boat Display at the Pavilion Theatre in connexion with the showing of the film " Atlantic " and collections organized by the...
Category: Branches
Walmer Atlantic 21 James Burgess
Walmer's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable James Burgess makes a net recovery after the demonstration which followed her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1896
THE " Abstracts of the Shipping Casual- ties which have occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year ended 30th June, 1896," have recently been issued by the Board of Trade, and are of the deepest interest,...
Category: Articles
A Dell Quay Dory
Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.
In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...