LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Old Age Pensioner Remembers.
An old age pensioner has sent five shillings to the Institution. He wrote that he had been rescued by the Gorleston life-boat in 1884.
Category: Articles
North Again...
In this issue he reaches the most westerly station in England and shapes a course back up the coast to the north..Since dropping anchor in Fowey and rushing back for the ILF conference and the 175th celebrations in Poole so much has happened...
Category: Articles
Your Shout
Your Shout To add your shout, write to the Editor at [email protected] or RNLI Headquarters, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Dear Editor I am in my 90s but one thingI have never forgotten is when I ‘just went for a swim’. I was...
Category: Correspondence
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
Life-Boat Sevices
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Category: Services
Mothers and Aunts (Seated I to R) Miss Nellie Tart (Doris' Mother) Miss Dorothy Tart Miss Amelia Tart (Doris' Aunt); (Standing I to R) Miss Lottie Tart Mrs Deer Miss
Mothers and aunts . . . (seated, I. to r.) Miss Nellie Tart (Doris' mother), Miss Dorothy Tart, Miss Amelia Tart (Doris' aunt); (standing, I. to r.) Miss Lottie Tart, Mrs Deer, Miss Madge Tart (Doris' aunt) many years later to be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.LI, and to att yachts of the successful British Admiral's Cup team. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is...
Category: Advertisement
Peaceful
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—Just before four o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor boat that appeared to be in difficulties off Lizard Point, Tresco. The wind was rising. By five...
Notes and News
1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.
It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...
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