LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
October (1)
PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
Ireland Division Harbour tug to the rescue AT ABOUT NOON on Saturday, January 12,1974, the Royal Ulster Constabulary were told that a small dinghy was in difficulties off Ballgalley Head. Police Sergeant D. McCutcheon drove out to the Head...
Category: Services
A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court
'WELCOME TO THE BOAT SHOW! we are particularly pleased that in this our 21st anniversary year we are featuring the Royal National Life-boat Institution which is, in turn, celebrating its own 150th year.' Thus, on New Year's Day,...
Category: Articles
Suandra (1)
Fire HM COASTGUARD INFORMED the honorary secretary of Cardigan ILB station at 1224 on Wednesday, June 16, that a vessel was on fire four miles north of Cardigan Head. There was moderate visibility and a light westerly...
London Boat Show
'BRING ME SUNSHINE' was the theme of the 27th London International Boat Show, set against a Caribbean background, at Earls Court from January 8 to 18, so who else could have opened it but Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise? Always good...
Category: Articles
Central Appeals Committee
ARRANGEMENTS are now well under way for a Midnight Matinee at the Victoria Palace, London, on Friday, March 8.
The committee responsible is working under the chairmanship of Lady Aitken.
By the time you...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Exhibitions In 1938
THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.
Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items...
Category: Articles
Feature: 'Gallant Rescue By Ladies'
Romantic fiction often portrays Victorian women as weak, passive creatures, but the list of RNLI Gallantry Medal awardees shows another side. Nineteen women have been awarded Medals for Gallantry in the RNLi's history.
Category: Articles
J. & J. Monks (1)
Blackpool, Fleetwood, and Lytham-St.
Anne's, Lancashire.—In the evening of the 14th November the Liverpool steamer J. & J. Monks, bound from Fleetwood to Runcorn with a cargo of gravel, anchored about three miles...
Obituary
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.
He...
Category: Obituaries