LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: January 1987 Cyril Mayo, chairman of Warmley branch since 1974, two years after he first became a member. He was awarded a statuette in 1983.
February 1987 Robert...
Category: Obituaries
Forty-Two Men Were Saved
EARLY on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the 20,125-ton Liberian tanker World Concord, which was in ballast and bound from Liverpool to Syria, broke in two during storms of exceptional violence in the Irish Sea.
Category: Services
Rnli News
Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.
The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...
Category: Articles
Hidden Among a Band of Ace Fund Raisers Are Shoreham Lifeboat's Motor Mechanic Jack Silverson and Ian Wallington
Hidden among a band of ace fund raisers are Shoreham lifeboat's motor mechanic. Jack Silverson, and Ian Wallington, RO(SE). The children, class 1 (aged 10 and II) of Shoreham Beach First School, have just handed over a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
St David's Royal visit In May, Her Majesty Queen Mamahato B Seeiso the Queen Mother and her son Prince Seeiso B Seeiso of Lesotho, South Africa, visited St David's lifeboat station. They were in St David's to sign a twinning...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Relief - D class Pride ofNuneaton and Bedworth The Borough ofNuneaton and Bedworth is over 90 miles from the sea, but the May or, Councillor Bob Copland, decided to make the funding of two D class lifeboats the aim of his Civic Appeal. Aided...
Category: Inaugurations
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1909
Jan. 8.—Eight men promptly put off in a coble and saved three men from a small pleasure oobla who were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing off Berwick-on- Tweed.—Reward, il.
Jan. 11.—Six men put off in a coble during...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
In brief A GENEROUS donation of £500 has been received from JAVA (the Jaguar. Alacrity, Vivacity Association) which is affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association.
AFTER Fort William and District branch invited the...
Category: Articles
Inset: Off Dunkirk the fleet was met by the French Societe Nationals de Sauvetage en Mer rescue vessel Jean Bart.
Inset: Off Dunkirk the fleet was met by the French Societe Nationals de Sauvetage en Mer rescue vessel Jean Bart.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate...
Category: Services