LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
End of a Life-Boat Band
THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS from many thousands of people, all, as it were, like threads being twisted together to form one rope of great strength, form the basis of Shoreline support for the lifeboat service. Year by year the sum of these...
Category: Articles
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,Aith Shetland*.— At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 15th of April, 1957, a doctor, after consulting with the Medi- cal Officer of Health, asked if the life- boat would take him to Foula to visit a very sick woman who, he suspected, might...
The S.S. Cambrian Coast
COLLIER HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.50 in the morning of February 10th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that North Fore- land Radio had picked up a call for help from a vessel in the Lowestoft area.
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The Life-Boat Service and the War
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 144 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 16 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 31st October, 1939 ... - 66,604 The Life-boat Service and the...
Category: Articles
Rescue on the Bar
MR. SIDNEY HOOK, a local pilot and member of the inshore rescue scheme at Teignmouth, Devon, has been awarded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum, and Mr. Samuel G. Hook and Mr. James P. Boyne have been presented with vellum...
Category: Services
The 18Th International Conference
The 18th International Conference Delegates representing 27 different countries were given a very full programme to follow during the 18th International Lifeboat Conference held in the week of the flotilla at the Royal Bath Hotel in...
Category: Meetings
The Late Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P.
THE death recently in Belfast of Mr.
Joseph Devlin, the Nationalist Member of Parliament, recalls a notable appeal which he made on one occasion at the annual meeting of the Belfast Branch of the Institution in the Belfast...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To WILLIAM WATTS WILLIAMS, on his retirement, after serving for 19| years as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To MATTHEW LETHBBIDGE,...
Category: Awards
May
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
Category: Services