LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brighter Morn
Small trawler sinks SHETLAND COASTGUARD received a mayday call at 0248 on Wednesday January 16, from the fishing vessel Brighter Morn saying that she had run aground on The Ord, a headland ten miles south east of Lerwick; she was holed and...
Jeffrey Holland and Felix Bowness (Centre I and R)
Jeffrey Holland and Felix Bowness (centre I and r) look it in turns to draw the 13 tickets while David Green (I), RNLI co-ordinaton'special duties, spun the drum. With them fr) is Anthony Oliver, appeals secretary.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th December. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.j F.R.S., V.P.i in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes at the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees of the ROYAL...
Category: Committee
Ready for the 12 1/2-Ton Lifeboat to Gather Speed Down Over the Skids and Hit the Sea
. . . ready for the 12 '/2-ton lifeboat to gather speed down over the skids and hit the sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Thomas Wilson, Esq.
IT is with extreme regret that we have to announce the decease of this much-lamented and valued gentleman, by which event the Shipwreck Institution has been deprived of one of its founders, and of its first Chairman of Committee. For a...
Category: Obituaries
A Gold Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay With the Crew Who Sailed With Him In Storm Force Winds on Monday December 6 197
A gold medal for conspicuous gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay with the crew who sailed with him in storm force winds on Monday December 6, 1976, to the rescue of the crew of MV Lyrma. (/. to r.) Crew Member John Dew, Second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Wokingham Branch Chairman
Above: Wokingham branch chairman Michael Collings receives the latest donation from John Linneman, chairman of John Linneman Associates of San Francisco.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. A Small fishing boat of Porthallow with one man on board capsized and sank off Porthallow Cove when returning from fishing at about 1.30 P.M. on the 6th April. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea....
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Conferences
North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
Category: Meetings