LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Stephen
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
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APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.
The...
Rescue from a Yacht. Letters of Gratitude
Letters of Gratitude.
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...
Category: Services
The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...
Category: Awards
HALF A CENTURY OF FUNDRAISING
The tale starts back in the 1960s, when two inspired RNLI volunteers were enjoying a Fred. Olsen cruise …
When supporters Howard and Poppy Bell encouraged fellow guests to help the RNLI during their holiday, the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the outer harbour at 10 P.M. on the 30th September last during stormy weather and a rough sea. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched, proceeded outside Salt Island, and found the brig- antine...
Category: Services
Shoreline
ANOTHER YEAR has come to the end, and a very successful one it was for Shoreline. Membership is well in excess of 97,000, and although we did not reach our target of 100,000 we were not all that far off. I doubt whether we shall be many...
Category: Articles
The Rescue
A fair breeze the sails of the good ship was swelling, As gallantly homeward she sped on her way; While the song of the sailors was joyously telling, " Home looms in the distance, love brooks no delay." "Y'heave-ho, with...
Category: Poetry
The Ladies Oj Kirkburton Guild West Yorkshire Together With Many Friends Volunteered to Be Extras In a Training Film Made Recently for the National Biscuit Company At
The ladies oj Kirkburton guild. West Yorkshire, together with many friends, volunteered to be extras in a training film made recently for the National Biscuit Company at Hillards stores.
After a very entertaining afternoon,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs