LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another £600 from South Africa.
Another £600 has been received from South Africa in response to Miss Pattie Price's appeal. £5°o of it comes from the Navy League War Fund of South Africa and £164 from people of Johannesburg. The total is now £2...
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Loud Hailers & Wireless
Other plans for the immediate future are improved caterpillar tractors and carriages for launching, loud-hailers in a hundred life-boats of the larger types, and watertight wireless sets, so that all life-boats, and not only those, as at...
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A Minesweeper
JULY 27TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A minesweeper had gone ashore on the rocks in Moelfre Bay, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard life-saving apparatus.- Rewards, £5 16s. 6d..
A Vessel (16)
DECEMBER 31ST. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Signals of distress had been made by a vessel, but before the life-boat reached her she signalled again that she did not need help and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £13...
Salmond visit
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond called into Queensferry Lifeboat Station on 22 June. He was shown around the station, introduced to the crew and presented with a framed photo of Queensferry’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Donald and Ethel Macrae...
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Dear Reader
As we start 2013 there’s a lot for the RNLI to look forward to. In this issue you can learn of our ambitious plans to ensure the future supply of the charity’s all-weather lifeboats (page 4).
There’s news of awards and...
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JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 10.25 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Lerwick asked for the services of the life-boat to bring three wounded German airmen from Fair Isle, where their Heinkel bomber had been...
Flood rescuers in action
As Lifeboat magazine went to print, RNLI Flood Rescue Team members were returning home after going to the aid of those affected by floods in Cumbria. The team, working alongside other emergency services from 6-8 December, helped...
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A Steamer
FEBRUARY 6TH. - PORT ASKAIG , HEBRIDES. A steamer had been reported in distress fifteen miles west of Rhinns Point, Islay, but by the time the life-boat reached her she had made repairs and was going on her way. - Rewards, £18...
A Vessel (38)
DECEMBER 16TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. A motor vessel which had broken down was able to carry out repairs and to come in without help. The owners made a gift to the Institution. - Rewards, £14 18s. 6d.