LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Folio Society
illustrated facsimile editions Yours for only 399 FAIRY TALES & FABLES INCLUDING: The Emperor's New Clothes The Ugly Duckling The Frog Primv • Rapunzel The Hare and the Tortoise The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Sleeping Beauty...
Category: Advertisement
Picked By the Captain
Above - Commandant Dheret draws the winning ticket assisted by Julia Fish, Beckie Rose and Stephen Warner, Brittany Femes General Manager. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
The Sunk Light-vessel
JULY 18TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The Sunk Light-vessel had been attacked by enemy aircraft, but TrinityHouse steamers went to her help. - Rewards, £20 12s..
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire - At 7.53 a.m.
on 6th February, 1967, news was receivedreceived that there was a sick man on the Dowsing lightvessel who needed to be taken ashore. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 8.45...
The Sailing Barge Monarch
OCTOBER 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
About four in the afternoon the coastguard reported that H.M.S. Albatross was towing the sailing barge Monarch and had asked that the life-boat should go out, take over, and tow her into...
Services of the Life-Boats In March, April and May, 1950. 58 Lives Rescued
DURING March life-boats went out on service 26 times and rescued 4 lives.
REFLOATING A STEAMER Cloughey, Co. Down.— About three o'clock in the morning of the 7th of March, 1950, information was received from the Tara...
Category: Services
Dr. Addison, of the Scillies
THE Institution has lost an old and valued friend by the death at the begin- ning of January of Dr. W. B. Addison, M.D., the chairman of the Scilly Islands branch.
For fourteen years, from 1918 to 1932, he was the honorary...
Category: Obituaries
"The Sea-Microcosm."
Magazine to be sold on behalf of the Institution.
Dorothy Una Katclifie, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., has very kindly decided to devote the gross profits of the current number of the literary and artistic magazine, The Microcosm, to...
Category: Articles
The Seamen's Story
WHILE the Institution was develop- ing its life-boat service in the first half of the 19th century another maritime organization was also in its infancy—a federation of port unions which was the precursor of the National Union of Seamen.<...
Category: Articles
The Mostyn Pilot Vessel
THREE LIFE-BOATS SEARCH FOR PILOT VESSEL Hoylake, Cheshire. At 5.31 on the afternoon of the 10th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the Rhyl life-boat had launched to search for the Mostyn pilot vessel, which was...