LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince of Wales
DARTMOUTH. — Signals having been fired, denoting that a vessel was in danger, the crew of the Life-boat Henry and Amanda Shaw were snmmoned, and about 10.45 A.M. on the llth January, the boat left her moorings and proceeded the rescue....
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated By Royal Charter.") Founded in 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
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Suzy of Chalfont
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.24 a.m.
on 5th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be aground on the Gunfleet sands north of Clacton. The boat was kept under observation and it...
Emperor, of Grimsby
On the 11 th November, the fishing smack Emperor, of Grimsby, was stranded during squally weather near Grainthorpe Haven. The North Briton life-boat put out and re- mained alongside the vessel some hours until the tide fell, leaving the...
Ann of Lonan
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
The S.S. Speke
. JANUARY 1 0TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.45 P.M. the lights were seen of a ship ashore on Gansey Point, about half a mile N.E. of Port St. Mary breakwater, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison was launched at 8.30 P.M. A...
Portrait on the Cover
The portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Thomas Lord, of Ramsey, Isle of Man. After serving as bowman of the Ramsey life-boat for nearly three years, he was appointed coxswain in October, 1930..
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Essay Competition: A Correction
IN the article on the Centenary Life- boat Essay Competition in the last issue, it was stated that none of the schools which had won the Challenge Shields had held them before. This was in-correct. The St. Paul's School, Netley Bridge,...
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New Ways of Raising Money
Money-raising for the R.N.L.I, sometimes begins accidentally, as Mr. S.J. Roberts discovered at the Earls Court Radio Show in September. Mr, Roberts, a member of the Institution's staff, is also honorary secretary of the Gauge i Model...
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Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...