SEVERE At 9 a.m. on loth April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Golden Hope was at sea and that conditions in the harbour approaches were very severe, with visibility almost nil. The life-boat Mary Ann...
IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...
Category: Obituaries
MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...
Category: Articles
A fisherman at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, rescued a baby seal which was helpless amoag the rocks in a rough sea, fed him with milk and cod liver oil, and decided to keep him until he was big enough to swim away. Meanwhile he made £30 by...
Category: Articles
THE general public, and especially those who live or have their business in the metropolis, have recently experienced the bewildering effects of fog on land, and will, perhaps, on that account have a sympathetic interest in what is being...
Category: Articles
12 MILE PASSAGE IN 30 KNOT WINDS Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat...
Category: Services
The Marconi R/T installation as used in life-boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS.
SINCE the " Centenary Celebrations " Number of The Lifeboat appeared in November last a number of other cele- brations have been held.
Cumberland.
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Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
Category: Correspondence
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
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