One of the four survivors of a steamer which was blown up on 15th November, 1939, and sank in a few minutes with her crew of thirteen. Nine were drowned. Four were picked up from the sea by another steamer, three of them badly injured, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THREE MEDALS FOR STORNOWAY On the 30th January, 1962, the Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, life-boat rescued two people from the motor fishing vessel Maime. A full account of this service, for which three medals for gallantry were awarded, appears...
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 9 o'clock on the night of the 29th of January, 1948, it was reported that the local motor fishing boat Striving, with a crew of four, was overdue. A gale warning had been received, and at 9.20 the motor life-boat R...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.55 in the afternoon, on the 27th of July, 1951, the Wallasey Police telephoned a report that five people had been cut off by the tide on the North Bank.
Two beach patrolmen were swimming out and...
ARE YOU A MOTOR CRUISER OWNER/CREW? JOIN THE MOTOR CRUISING ASSOCIATION whose rallies, social events and quarterly journals are INFORMAL AND FRIENDLY Member of the R.Y.A. Motor Cruising Conference For details write to: The Administrator,...
Category: Advertisement
returns.
When you are saving lives only the best will do. Rigid hull inflatables are now in service with the R.N.L.I, and H.M.
Coastguard. The superiority of this design in rescue work over a pure...
Category: Advertisement
-the instant communication and precise navigation equipment that takes the rough with the smooth Coastal Radio Limited, Westway, Chelmsford. Essex CM1 3BH.
Telephone: (0245) 65533.—G!"" A Marconi Marine...
Category: Advertisement
When Hammond's opened a new store at Bridlington, Yorkshire, in April 1970, models took part in a fashion parade organised by the local ladies' life-boat guild. Here the models are shown pushing out the Bridlington IRB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One of the objects of selling life-boat souvenirs is to remind people of the service and to draw attention to its work. Recently Mr. Barrie T. Kendall, C. Eng., M.R.I.N.A., Mem. S.N.A.M.E., M.N.E.C. Inst., A.M.I.Mar E., of Waltonon- Thames,...
Category: Donations
You receive THE LIFE-BOAT regularly because of your close personal association with the life-boat service. May I now ask t for your help or, should I say, further help? If every reader at this time of year were to find five new 3...
Category: Articles