LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (33)
OCTOBER 22ND. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. A vessel was reported to have been blown up S.E. of Dursey Head, and a ship’s boat to have left the wreck, but nothing could be found. People on shore had seen the vessel sink, and it...
List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1900
Name of Donor or Testator. The late Mr. George Wooflndin
Amount of Gift or Legacy. 630
Date received. 1895
Object. For a George Woofndin Life-boat
How carried out....
Category: Donations
Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.
ON 31st December, 1938, Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., retired from the service of the Institu- tion, having been chief inspector of life-boats since August, 1930.
Commander Drury, whose early years were spent...
Category: Articles
The Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts
THE first of three life-boats built out of a gift of £33,000, which the Institution has received from its Southern Africa branch,* was named at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on the 23rd of July, 1948, in the presence of a large audience on the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Folio Society
illustrated facsimile editions Yours for only 399 FAIRY TALES & FABLES INCLUDING: The Emperor's New Clothes The Ugly Duckling The Frog Primv • Rapunzel The Hare and the Tortoise The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Sleeping Beauty...
Category: Advertisement
The R.A.F. Flying-Boat Walrus L.2237
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.42 P.M.
on the 29th September, 1938. the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea and was firing rockets for help. After calling out the life-boat, the coastguard, in view of...
Lord Wakefield's Gifts. A New Motor Life-Boat and Boat-House at Hythe, Kent
THE Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, G.C.V.O., C.B.E., LL.D., who is vice- president of the Hythe, Kent, branch, has presented to the Institution the whole cost, amounting to £9,669 2s. 9d., of the new motor life-boat which was stationed at...
Category: Donations
Lifeboat Services
Four saved from MFV among rocks in hurricane-force gustsCoxswain David Chant of the St Davids lifeboat, Dyfed, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of four fishermen in severe gales on 26...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (65)
AUGUST 19TH. - ALDEBURGH,. SUFFOLK.
During the evening a British pilot was seen to bale out from his aeroplane some three miles south of Orfordness. A N.W.breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The No. 2 motor life-boat...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service that thej brother of two men in the Coningbeg lightvessel had died. A request was made for the...