LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Stamp Club
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, reports that the club is growing, but that the demand for stamps is greater than the supply.
Besides...
Category: Articles
Obituary
CAPTAIN THE HON. SIR ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., D.S.O., died on the 16th of April, 1958, at the age of 73. He first joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1932 and after the second world war rejoined in 1946....
Category: Obituaries
Red Lancer
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 29th of December, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Red Lancer, of Fleet- wood, which had anchored near the harbour entrance had hoisted a flag signal indicating that...
Long Wolf
On the after- noon of the 8th July the motor boat Lone Wolf, on a pleasure cruise from Portrush to Skerries, with a crew of three and ten passengers, got into difficulties. Her propeller had fouled and she began to drift out to sea. A strong...
Fenit Life-Boat Crew Return from a 12-Hour Search After Flares Seen Over Loop Head on 25th August
Fenit Life-Boat Crew Return From A 12-Hour Search After Flares Seen Over Loop Head On 25Th August. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (9)
OCTOBER 14TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
A steamer had run ashore, and the life-boat went out to stand by while an attempt was being made to refloat her, but was signalled to return as she was not needed.
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Catherine and Alice
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. — On the 29th August, at about 9 A.M., a telegram was received from Brighton stating that a vessel flying a signal of distress had passed that town and was drifting, quite disabled, towards Newhaven, having lost her...
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winterton
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winter- ton, Norfolk, who died on llth January last, at the age of sixty-five, joined the Life-boat Crew at Winterton, Norfolk, in 1884, when he was eighteen years old.
He was appointed Second...
Category: Obituaries
Mermaid Marine
engines iere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life.the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.
MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in...
Category: Advertisement
A K.L.M. Constellation Aircraft
On the 14th-15th of August, 1958, the Fenit and Galway Bay life-boats carried out a long and unsuccessful search for survivors of a K.L.M.
Constellation aircraft, which had crashed into the sea. An account of their search...