LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Timber Ship Fred Everard
Cargo shifted ON PASSAGE bound from Archangel to the Mediterranean, timber ship Fred Everard developed a list when her deck cargo shifted and, at 0143 on Monday, September 26, sent out an urgency signal PAN. Her position was 61°...
Mr. William Liggins, of Coventry
MR. WILLIAM LIGGINS, of Coventry, who died on the 29th of June, at the age of 97, was for over a third of his very long life associated with the Life-boat Service. He was honorary secretary of the Coventry branch from 1915 until 1933, and...
Category: Obituaries
Noamh Seunan
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— During the afternoon of the 28th of February, 1948, a fishing boat was re- ported flying distress signals four and a half miles to the westward, and the motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at...
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 314 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 315 COXSWAIN SWARTS 316 BRAVERY AT TORBAY 317 CHAIRMAN'S NAME 318 CONGRATULATIONS TO IRISH MECHANIC 319 MAUD SMITH AWARD 319 AWARDS TO TWO COXSWAINS 320 FOCUS ON ANGLE 321 CHRISTMAS CARDS...
Category: Articles
Dominic the St.Bernard
Dominic the St Bernard is a walking advertisement for the RNLI. His jacket was made by ladies on the committee of Mevagissey branch and Dominic certainly catches the eye when he and his master Mr 'Mawman' Smith go walkies. The branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Competitors In the York Raft Race from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club Paddle Up the Ouse Under Lendal Bridge Winner of the 43-Strong Home-Fashi
Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saved from sinking car
INVERGORDON | 6 SEPTEMBER
Invergordon RNLI rescued a man from a sinking Land Rover at Cromarty Firth. The all-weather lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was called at 6.40am to Invergordon Sailing Club...
Category: Articles
Pride of Rosslare
OCTOBER 15TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO.
WATERFORD. Distress signals were seen from a fishing vessel in Waterford Harbour, and at 6.10 P.M. the motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, and...
Shore Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1881
Jan. 6,1881.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. HENRY SMITH, pilot, of Glou- cester, and 11. to his mate, for saving the owner, and two persons on board the yacht Foam, which was in...
Category: Articles
A Voyage of Two Motor Life-Boats
AT the beginning of September the two Motor Life-boats for Montrose and Longhope went to their Stations from the Building Yard at Cowes. Com- mander B. D. Drury, O.B.E., K.D., R.N.R., the Northern District Inspector, •was in command, both...
Category: Articles