LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Valentia, Co. Kerry—On the 24th of March, 1950, the Commissioners of the Irish Lights asked the life-boat to relieve the Skelligs Rocks and Inish- tearaght Rocks Lighthouses as, by arrangement with the Commissioners, she had been made...
The Rotary Club of Shetland
The Rotary Club of Shetland presents a cheque for £1,000 towards Lerwick lifeboat appeal. (I. to r.) William Reid, Lerwick honorary treasurer, Coxswain George Leith, W. Moncrieff, Rotary president, Second Coxswain Peter Leith and Magnus... - View image in PDF
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On Board the Skegness Life-Boat
The sinking steam-drifter Dusty Miller, from which the life-boat rescued the crew of three, is on the right. On the left is a Dutch oil tanker. She gave the life-boat a lee.
From a photograph by the motor-mechanic, Percy... - View image in PDF
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The "Life-Boat Stores Unlimited."
IN 1922 we published a letter from a gentleman on the Gold Coast asking for the Institution's catalogue and samples, as we had been recommended to him as a firm " for goods and provisions." Our inability to supply a catalogue...
Category: Articles
One of the good folk
As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...
Category: Articles
The Ecuadorian Motor Vessel Bonita
Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...
People and Places
Model effort Gordon Davies, of Waunwen, Swansea, a distant relation of William Gammon, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales, lost on service 40 years ago, has recently completed a labour of love in his memory, a 12th scale...
Category: Articles
At Aldeburgh (Suffolk) on the Same Day
At Aldeburgh (Suffolk) on the Same Day The Motor Life-Boat Putting Out To The Help of the Foundering Steamer Culmore. - View image in PDF
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The Motor Fishing Coble Primrose
On the morning of the 5th December, the motor fishing coble Primrose, of Whitby, was seen to be in difficulties about a mile E.S.E.
from Whitby Rock Buoy, and,the Motor Life-boat Margaret Marker Smith was launched at 11.25...
From the Spanish Steamer Cantabria
Coxswain Henry Blogg is shaking hands with the Cantatria's captain. The captain's wife and children and one member of his crew are on his left (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs