LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Terrible Twins
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose...
Point Girl
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—-At 1.20 P.M.
on the 30th July, 1939, a man reported to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing boat Point Girl, of Ballycotton, which was out with anglers, was flying a distress signal about...
During the Visit of a German Lifeboat to the Isles of Scilly Last May Colonel Sir John Carew Pole Bt Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall Presented Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge
During the visit of a German lifeboat to the Isles of Scilly last May, Colonel Sir John Carew Pole, Bt, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, presented Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge with the BEM awarded to him in the New Year Honours List... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches
THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...
Category: Articles
Dutch Honour for the Fishguard Crew
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...
Category: Awards
Some Ways of Raising Money
Cheques totalling £4,000 were presented to three charities at St. Martin's School, Walton, Surrey, in October. This sum was raised at the school fete in July—and was nearly double the amount raised at the late fete three years ago....
Category: Articles
(Right) Burton-On-Trent Branch President and a Committee Member Plan to Visit All English Mainland Lifeboat Stations on Their Bmw Motorcycles They Will Start from the Rnli Stand at the Royal
(Right) Burton-on-Trent branch president and a committee member plan to visit all English mainland lifeboat stations on their BMW motorcycles. They will start from the RNLI stand at the Royal Show being held at the National Agricultural... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Thank You for the Fantastic Day
'Thank you for the fantastic day . . . it was great to meet the lifeboatmen and go on a real lifeboat..." wrote John Fenwick after his visit to the Royal Festival Hall.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Income and Expenditure for 1926 (1)
EXPENDITURE.
LIFE-BOATS :—• New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Longhope, Montrose, New Brighton, Pie! (Barrow), Plymouth, Porthdinllaen, Ramsgate, Southwold, Stromness, Wexfacd,...
Category: Accounts
New For Dartmouth
new FOR DARTMOUTH the establishment of a permanent lifeboat station at Dartmouth, Devon, has come one step closer, with the granting of planning permission for a boathouse.
the River Dart and its estuary are home to 3,400...
Category: Articles