LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
HANDS TO THE PUMP
THURSO | 11 FEBRUARY
The two-man crew of a fishing boat called for help in the small hours when their engine room started filling with water off Dunnet Head. Thurso lifeboat crew reached the scene at 5am to transfer a salvage pump...
Category: Articles
If You Are a Full Off-Shore Or Associate Member of the Rnli You Are Entitled to Wear Or Show: (Left) a 5" Dinghy Burgee In Dark Blue With Lifeboat Flag Price £125; a 12"
you are a full, off-shore or associate member of the RNLI, you are entitled to wear or show: (left) a 5" dinghy burgee in dark blue with lifeboat flag, price £1.25; a 12" or 8" hoist flag in dark blue with lifeboat flag... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Terborsch, of Amsterdam
DECEMBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT.
The S.S. Terborsch, of Amsterdam, had run aground on the Goodwin Sands, but refloated on the rising tide without help. - Rewards, £31 17s. 6d..
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The Screw Steamer Akaba
Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...
Some Ways of Making Money
For the past two years, Mrs Patricia Duncan has held hunter trials in her garden in aid of the RNLI. Her daughter and gardener made the jumps—last year they even achieved a water jump, as well as different shapes and styles through the woods...
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Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, Honorary Secretary of the Seaford Branch
BY the death of Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, in October of last year, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and devoted Honorary Secretaries. Mr.
Middleton founded the Branch at Seaford, Sussex, in 1917, and...
Category: Obituaries
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives 100 years ago The winter 1906 edition of the Journal revealed how John Owston, Coxswain of the Scarborough lifeboat, met King Edward VII after being asked by Lord Londesborough to assist a...
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The S.S. Lady Anne
CAISTER.—Signal guns having been fired by the lightships, the Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched at3 P.M. on the 10th January during a W.
wind and a very thick fog, and sailed to the south part of the Middle...
The S.S. Ballyhalbert
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1958, the Portpatrick coastguard told the honor- ary secretary that the S.S. Ballyhalbert of Belfast was aground hah0 a mile north of Ardrossan. At three o'clock the...