LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lewis, of Campbeltown
On the 7th December the smack Lewis, of Campbeltown, went ashore off the entrance of Irvine Harbour, the wind blowing a gale from the westward at the time. The life-boat of the Institution sta- tioned there quickly put off to the aid of the...
Martell Cognac
Fhe spirit of Tradition Vlichel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to lead their 270 year old company, vas in England when the mnouncement was made to phase ut the traditional Naval rum ation in 1970. This included the...
Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Monev
'A Queen's Gala' at Pitcaple Castle, Inverurie, on Sunday June 10 raised £1,600 for the lifeboat service. During the afternoon six scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots were danced on the lawn by pupils of the Anne...
Category: Donations
Training In Focus With the 1987 Medallists
The RNLI has been developing its policy of formal training for lifeboatmen since the early 1970s — Here Capt.
GEORGE COOPER RD, MNI, RNR, Deputy Chief of Operations, discusses the value of training with those who received...
Category: Articles
Dear reader
I’ve just experienced almost every kind of weather in one week. No, I’ve not been globe trotting, just holidaying in Cornwall. Waking variously to hot sunshine, chilly pea-souper, or lashing hail, I knew that whatever I chose to do, I’d meet...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Drinkers go over the limit! Publicans and pub customers throughout south east England contributed to a £15,000 donation presented to the RNLI at Margate lifeboat station. Jonathan Neame, director of Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, handed...
Category: Articles
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Month of December, 1874
wtck. Site of Wreck. Wind and Weather. Name of Vessel. 1874.
Dec. 2 » 3 : ., 7 " 8 » J » 9 „ „ . j ) i) j »»...
Category: Services
A Bronze-Medal Service at Penlee
AT 2.15 ih the morning of 27th January a message was received at the Penlee life-boat station from the coast- guard that a ship appeared to be on fire near Gear Rock in Mounts Bay.
Twenty minutes later the motor life- boat...
Category: Services
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (8)
SEPTEMBER
Launches 52. Lives rescued 115.
SEPT. 2ND. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 6.36 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby,...
Category: Services
Primula
FISHING BOAT OVERDUE Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 12.48 in the afternoon of the 21st of June, 1947, the Wick coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Primula, of Wiek, last seen on the night of the 18th off Sandside Head, had been...