LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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76 Year Old Edwin E. Distin (seated), the Only Survivor of the 1916 Life-Boat Disaster at Salcombe
76 year old Edwin E.
Distin (seated), the only survivor of the 1916 lifeboat diaster at Salcombe, with (left to right) Mr.W. P. Budgett, honorary secretary, Hubert 'Bubbles' Distin, son, who is the coxswain, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Injured Crew Member Gary Cook of the St.Peter Port Lifeboat
Injured crew member Gary Cook of the St Peter Port lifeboat is transferred from the RNAS Culdrose helicopter which had air-lifted him to Guernsey. Cook and fellow crew member Vincent Helmot had been injured when the mizzen mast of the... - View image in PDF
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A Number of Fishing Drifters Including The West Neuk
MAY 16TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
During the morning a number of fishing drifters were in the bay waiting to enter the harbour. A north-east gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea at the harbour mouth, and the tide was...
Joan Manning District Organising Secretary (Midland Shires) Was at Worcester to Meet Two Other Adventurers Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock As They Reached the En
Joan Manning, district organising secretary (Midland Shires), was at Worcester to meet two other adventurers, Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, as they reached the end of a 100-mile sponsored canoe paddle from Welshpool. Adam and Graham,... - View image in PDF
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Rescue In Thick Fog Off the Orkneys
THE first news that the steam trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, was in dis- tress to reach a life-boat station came in the form of a message from the Wick coastguard to the Thurso, Caithness-shire, honorary...
Category: Services
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Captain the Honourable V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Presenting the Gold Medal to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Captain the Honourable V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., presenting the gold medal to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, at the reception held at St. James's Palace, London, on 11th July, 1967, to commemorate her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mignonette, of Southampton
Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.28 p.m. on 12th September, 1966, red flares were sighted in Weymouth Bay. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at 8.48 in a strong westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She proceeded to a...
The American Steamers Am-Mer-Mar and The Luray Victory, of Los Angeles
JANUARY 30TH - 31ST. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.20 at night, just after the lifeboat had returned from the American steamer Am-Mer-Mar, which had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands, but had got off without help, the Deal coastguard reported another...
The Author With Amy Strath and (/) May Mcmaster Mbe Miss Strath Has Only Recently Retired from the Position of Assistant National Organiser After 36 Years of Exemp
The author with Amy Strath and (/.) May McMaster, MBE. Miss Strath has only recently retired from the position of assistant national organiser, after 36 years of exemplary service in the Institution's Dublin office. Mrs McMaster is... - View image in PDF
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