LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gold Mist (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.20 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard telephoned that the yacht Gold Mist, of Newhaven, appeared to be making little progress in heavy weather two and a half miles south of Copt Point....
Solveig
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.57 on the evening of the 9th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red rockets two miles south of Ventnor pier.
Eight minutes later the life...
Encouraging the Young
A good illustration of how the energies of the young can be harnessed with the encouragement of older members of the R.N.L.I. is the case of Jane and Debra Whiting, aged 10 and 12, of Grimsby, who this year held a garden sale at their home...
Category: Donations
Broughty Ferry - Scotland Division
Broughty Ferry's Arun can be seen lying afloat just to the right of centre in the main photograph, with the boathouse on the foreshore at the far right.
The boathouse is now home to the boarding boat and D class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Pyrene Company Ltd
THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
9 Grosvenor Gardens.
London S.W.I Victoria 8474 Head Office and works BRENTfORD, MIDDLESEX Canadian plant: TORONTO Australian plant: MELBOURNE Just as ships in distress know they...
Category: Advertisement
A Century Record
Miss E. Dobie, ex-president of the Dunoon ladies' life-boat guild, reported late last year that one of their oldest guild members, Miss Oswald, had celebrated her hundredth birthday.
She lives at Kilmun, near Dunoon,...
Category: Articles
4 May This Year Marked the 200th Anniversary of Sunderland Lifeboat Station,
4 May this year marked the 200th anniversary of Sunderland lifeboat station, the first RNLI station in England to reach this landmark. To mark this occasion, a dinner and disco was held at The Stadium of Light, home of Sunderland Football... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Corrections
In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.
Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...
Category: Articles
Members of the St.Helier Lifeboat Crew Who Raised £3000 Towards the Cost of the New Lifeboat to Be Placed In Jersey Through a Sponsored Row to Guernsey Pictured H
Members of the St Helier lifeboat crew, who raised £.3,000 towards the cost of the new lifeboat to be placed in Jersey through a sponsored row to Guernsey. Pictured here (extreme left) is Mr A. Alexandra, manager of the St Helier branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fortuna
HORNSEA.—At noon on the 18th April, when it was blowing hard from the eastward, the brig Fortuna, of Oster-Risoer, was driven, ashore to the north of the town, and the Life-boat Ellen and Margaret of Settle was launched, and proceeding...