LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Dun Aengus
NINE RESCUED FROM IRISH STEAMER Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.25 in the afternoon of the 24th of May, 1947, a message was received from the master of the S.S. Dun Aengus, of Galway, that his ship had run aground at Inishmaan. He...
Mrs Pam Hill,
Mrs Pam Hill, chairman of Bristol ladies guild from 1976 to 1982 when she was elected vice president. She was awarded a Silver badge in 1985..
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boats on the Air. Broadcasts In 1949
Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Two girls of Stamford High School, Lincolnshire, Rosetta Birkbeck and Gillian Foot, enjoy collecting for the R.N.L.I. Late last year they sent £33 14s. 4d., and explained:' We have made the collection in several different ways. Six...
Category: Donations
A Small Boat Named Bee
At about 4.45 P.M. on 28th December, 1931, information was received from a fisher- man that a small boat, with two men, had been seen drifting helplessly out to sea. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. The Motor Life-boat...
A Boat Belonging to Pet
During tine cold weather on the 19th April the | Coxswain, John Swan, observed a man in a small boat trying to reach a j smack which was outside the harbour.
After several attempts one of the oars broke and the boat began...
The Fundraisers
During the RNLI's anniversary year, branches, guilds and supporters from all over the UK and Republic of Ireland celebrated in a number of novel and interesting ways - with many of the green fingered amongst them saying it with flowers.....
Category: Articles
A Pilot Gig
BRIXHAM, DEVON.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 18th January, on the urgent solicitation of a number of experienced master mariners, sailors and seamen, the City of Exeter Life-boat was launched to render assistance to a pilot gig proceeding to put...
Ferry Good Idea
Yacht race supponers Kelp to raise funds by watching the action from the safety of Solent Cat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (164)
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down off the Lincolnshire coast, but neither the lifeboat nor aeroplanes could find anything. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 4s. 6d..