LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
The Start of Last Year's Sheffield Marathon
The start of last year's Sheffield Marathon which raised, mainly through the sponsorship of individual runners, a remarkable £24,000 for the RNLI. It is an annual event with some 6,000 entrants and Sheffield branch, together with... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Services of the World: Spain
By DON PEDRO DE NOVO Y COLSON, General Secretary of the Sociedad Espanola de Salvamento de Naufragos.
THE Society was founded in December, 1880 (under the patronage of H.M. Queen Dona Maria Cristina, its first protecting...
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Ploughing Matches With Vintage Tractors Was the Idea of Gordon Bell Honorary Secretary of Kilrea Branch Northern Ireland the First Held In 1976 Raised £104 But U
Ploughing matches with vintage tractors was the idea of Gordon Bell, honorary secretary of Kilrea branch, Northern Ireland. The first, held in 1976, raised £.104, but unfortunately heavy rain in 1977 meant very few spectators so that,... - View image in PDF
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Lass o' Doon
On the 5th December, at 3 A.M., the schooner Lass o' Doon, of Montrose, bound from Sunderland to Montrose, got ashore" on the Annat Bank, off this port, in a snowstorm, the wind being at S.S.E. with considerable sea on.
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Vertical take off
The volunteers aboard an inshore lifeboat faced nearly overwhelming conditions one day last March …
The shipping and inshore waters forecast at 5.20am warned of the impending...
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Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., who was lost with his crew on the night of 18th March, 1969, while on service (see page 594). He was awarded his first silver medal in 1959for saving 14 from the... - View image in PDF
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Knockdown
Knockdown . . .
. . . DURING A WINTER OF UNUSUAL FEROCITY IN THE EARLY HOURS of Christmas Eve 1977 Kilmore lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Lad Murphy, and St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft" Oakley 'Frank Pen/old...
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New Ways of Raising Money
The following letter and a cheque for 3Q dollars from Mr, Charles de Burgh Daly (Chuck Daly) was received by his aunt, Mrs. E. Stewart of Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, and forwarded to the Courtmacsherry life-boat branch: "The. White House,...
Category: Donations
First Launch for the Four Boys
At 1030 on 28 November 1991, Sennen Cove's new Mersey class lifeboat The Four Boys, the first Mersey to be allocated to a slipway station, sped down the slipway on its first launch at its new home.. - View image in PDF
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