LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notre Dame de Fatima
On the 8th of November, 1956, the St. David's life-boat was launched to help the French trawler Notre Dame de Fatima, which was in distress three miles south-west of Skokholm light.
The life-boat rescued the trawler'...
Citrine
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
General Index
PAGE FACE , FAG ANNUAL REPORT . . 319 " Life-boat Saturday " Officers . 425 Officers of the Institution . ....
Category: Index
The S.S. Camlough
POETPATEICK, WlGTOWNSHIEE and DONAGHADEB, Co. DOWN.—The Port- patrick Motor Life-boat J. and W., and the Donaghadee Motor Life-boat Wil- liam and Laura were both launched on the 13th January to the s.s. Camlough, of Belfast, the...
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1963 has been won by Mechanic Joseph Houlihan of Valentia for the rescue single-handed of two men on 2nd September. A full account of the service...
Category: Awards
English Rose III on Show
When Farnham, Surrey, staged a radio and television show for three days in October, 1966, English Rose HI was exhibited and attracted a great deal of interest.
The expenses of the show, which was arranged by Lloyd &...
Category: Articles
Padstow Lifeboat
Some £19,000 was raised this year to fund Padstow lifeboat station's new lift (see page 290). Of that amount, £9,850 was raised by a summer raffle of a tablecloth hand embroidered by Mrs Mary Taylor, seen here with Rear Admiral... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meet The Team
Meet the team Early on the morning of Monday, 18 September 2006, an unusual meeting took place at St Agnes, Cornwall. Here, the Lifeboat brings you the resulting portrait.
The RNLI lifeboat crew, lifeguards, shorehelpers... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1886.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Lecture on Life-Boats
Self-righting.—I come now to the explanation of a property which, by comparison, is a novel one, although more than two-thirds of the life-boats in the United Kingdom are now provided with it,— a property the value of which has been disputed...
Category: Articles