LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Steamer
NOVEMBER 16TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An unknown steamer, which had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, had signalled for a doctor, and with Col. G. D.
Franklin, C.I.E., O.B.E., late I.M.S. on board, the...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Fourth lottery THE FOURTH NATIONAL LOTTERY of the RNLI was drawn by Ed (Stewpot) Stewart on Wednesday January 31 at RNLI headquarters, Poole. Supervising the draw were Major-General Ralph H. Farrant, chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Donations
Peel - Mersey Class Ruby Club
Mrs Karin Bache Norali, descendant of a survivor rescued from the wreck of Sf George in 1899. names Peel's Mersey class lifeboat Ruby Clery. Photo John C. Hall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli News
Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.
The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...
Category: Articles
Another Wrist Watch Awarded to Boy
About 11.40 on the morning of the 31st July, 1962, an 11-foot dinghy capsized about a mile north-west of St.
Helens fort off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. There were three people aboard, a Mr. Gleave and his eleven-...
Category: Awards
An Aircraft
Fraserburgb, Aberdeenshire. At 9.55 on the morning of the 30th of June, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed that an aircraft from the Royal Naval Air Station at Lossiemouth had crashed at the Rosehearty rocket...
Features
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
Giant Caterpillars Gather Fruit Down In the Orchard
Giant Caterpillars Gather Fruit Down In The Orchard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...