LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
TWO BOYS AND SAILING DINGHY SAVED Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.50 on the evening of Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the acting honorary secretary received a telephone call from a man at Donabate stating he was concerned for the safety of his son...
Madeline Rickmers
RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Givil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...
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THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...
Integrity
STRANDED IN FOG Anstruther, Fife. At 9.15 a.m.
on 22nd May, 1964, a representative of a boatbuilders' firm at St. Monance asked if the life-boat would help the motor fishing vessel Integrity of St. Monance which had...
Corsair
TOW ROPE PARTED Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.15 a-m- on ist October, 1963, a pilot told the honorary secretary that a motor boat was burning flares about two miles north-west of Troon harbour. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken left her...
Elaine
Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.20 a.m.
on 13th April, 1969, the coastguard reported that two red flares had been sighted off Donna Nook. The lifeboat City of Bradford HI was launched at 9.28 in a fresh north westerly wind with a...
Lifeboat Provides Inflatable and First Aid In Team Effort for Fallen Climber
Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber to safety.
The lifeboat was on service on 14 May when the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Estrellia
On the night of the 17th September a very strong gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very rough sea, rain squalls and a very high tide, and between midnight and eight o'clock the next morning there were three launches ; one by the...
Prince of Wales Days In 1935
DUKING 1935 Life-boat Days, through the gracious permission of the Institu- tion's President, were known as " Prince of Wales Day," in celebration of the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
There was an increase...
Category: Articles
Lord Runciman and Sir Lionel Halsey
THE Institution lost last year two very distinguished members of the com- mittee of management, the Viscount Runciman and Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.B.
Lord Runciman, who died on the 14th of...
Category: Obituaries