LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEVEN CHILDREN ON BOARD Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At i.oo p.m.
on 24th August, 1965, a lo-foot fibreglass dinghy left Ballycotton for Garryvoe Strand with a man and seven children on board. The wind was then south-west force 3...
Tic Tac and Fishing Boats Sea Breeze, Kingfisher and Mary Arden
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.30 a.m. on ist October, 1966, four local fishing boats were still at sea between New Quay and Aberystwyth, when a storm was reported. The life-boat St.
Albans was launched at 9.42 in a gale...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CROMER, NORFOLK.—On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The...
Category: Services
New Boat-House for Rhyl
THE new life-boat house at Rhyl was formally opened by the Countess Howe at a ceremony on the 27th of June, 1956. Lord Langford, vice-president of the Rhyl branch, wras in the chair.
Earl Howe, Chairman of the Commit- tee...
Category: Inaugurations
Blanket for a Life-Boat
Two little girls of Withernsea, aged thirteen and eleven, have sent a blanket, which they had made themselves, to Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station, to be used in the life-boat..
Category: Articles
Summary of Accounts for 1976
Full accounts are available from Poole Headquarters £ million 0.5 0.5 + 0.5- HOW EXPENDITURE WAS APPORTIONED TEN YEARS AT A GLANCE 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 AREAS OF EXPENDITURE KEY LIFE-BOAT SERVICE LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Accounts
Only Here for the Beer.
Pictured are festival organiser Mike Lane with Tom Field, chairman of Peterborough branch Photo Peterborough Evening Telegraph. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (2)
On the 9th October, 1939, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of twenty- nine of the S.S. Mount Ida, of Piraeus.
COXSWAIN HENRY G. BLOGG was awarded a second clasp to his silver medal.
SECOND COXSWAIN...
Category: Articles
The R.N.L.I. Maintains a Fleet of Reserve Life-Boats, and Last Year Boats Built As Far Back As 1930, 1933, 1935 and 1939 Were Included.
The R.N.L.I. maintains a fleet of reserve life-boats, and last year boats built as far back as 1930, 1933, 1935 and 1939 were included. It is after a period in the reserve fleet that such life-boats are put up for private sale. The life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs