LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sweet William By Rosemary Whitten
A MARATHON 278-MILE DONKEY TROT FROM ST IVES TO LONDON 'Hey, what's that Freisian donkey doing staked out on your grass?' The cheerful farmer's voice stopped the conversation in the comfortable bar of The White Hart,...
Category: Articles
England
Dungeness, Kent. — At 3.15 on the morning of the 6th of August, 1952, a steamer was heard to blow her siren half a mile north-east of the life-boat station, and at 3.55 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was...
The Annual Meetings Continued
Presentation of Awards As usual, the morning's Annual General Meet ing was followed in the afternoon by the Institution's Annual Presentation of Awards, both to voluntary workers and for gallantry.
Mr Acland opened...
Category: Meetings
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! It you re considering buying an outboard, x ""~~~'—X.
whatever the size. you'll have noticed that almost even.' / N...
Category: Advertisement
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon.'r Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.<...
Category: Medals
Vondel
FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1935
4. 4.55 a.m. 4. 11.15 a.m. 4. 11.20 a.m. 4. 4.33 p.m. 8. 5.0 p.m. 9. 11.30 a.m. 11. 7.52 a.m. 11.
11. 3.30 p.m.
4.37 p.m. 13. 10.25 a.m. 13. 3.15 p.m. 22. 9.5 p.m. ...
Category: Services
April (1)
APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...
Category: Services
Safely Ashore - Two
Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.
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Category: Photographs
Don
LOBSTER FISHERS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.40 on the morning .of the 14th of August, 1947, information was received that two men, who had left Solva in their motor fishing boat Don to attend to their lobster pots,...