LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Star of Freedom
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 8.11 p.m. on 9th May, 1967, it was learned that the fishing vessel Star of Freedom had engine trouble and was drifting seven miles south by east of Portpatrick. The life-boat Henry Blogg, on temporary duty at...
The S.S. Somali (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...
Teazer, of Whtiby
On the 18th October, at 5 | P.M., during a heavy gale at E.S.E., the i barque Teazer, of Whitby, whilst endea- j vouring to enter that port, in tow of a •, steamer, parted her tow-rope and went ! ashore on Whitby Sands. The Life-boat...
Nautilus, of South Shields
About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea im- mediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister life- boat was...
Pride of Ballinskelligs
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 5.38 in the evening on the 22nd of February, 1950, the coxswain saw a fishing boat drifting on to the rocks off Cromwell Point, clearly in need of prompt help. Seven minutes later the life-boat...
Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication 1824-1974 St.Paul's Cathedral
IT is THE GLORY of St Paul's that it can embrace all the grandeur of national occasion and all the simplicity and friendliness of a parish service. The RNLI could have had no happier setting for its 150th anniversary service of...
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News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1935
1st May to 31st July, 1935.
Greater London.
Prince of Wales Day for the life-boats was held in Greater London, on 21st May, in Acton and Chiswick, Ashford, Barnes, Battersea, Beckenham, Bermondsey,...
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The Margate Motor Life-Boat at Calais
ON th« invitation of the Mayor of Calais a party representing the Life-boat Stations on the Kentish coast crossed to Calais on Sunday, 14th August, in the Margate Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough, to be present at the unveiling, on the...
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Ann Mitchell, of Newquay
On the 16th March it was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea, when the Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Newquay, came into the bay in a distressed state, and after a narrow es- cape of being blown on the rocks, where...
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
ANNUAL Meeting of the London members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and Life-boat Day organizers, Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Guild,...
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