LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue
In this issue News Including the naming of Falmouth lifeboat by Her Majesty The Queen and her Golden Jubilee celebrations Letters Feature Moving inland The RNLI's first inland lifeboat station celebrated its first birthday in May - Sam...
Category: Contents
The Ferry Speedlink Vanguard and Pirate Radio Ship Ross Revenge
January storm ON SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 1985, northnorth- easterly winds of force 9 to storm force 10 hit the east coast and at 1812 that evening a message was received from the Sealink roll-on roll-off ferry, Speedlink Vanguard, that she had...
The Ilb Arrives
The ILB arrives and gets a line around Mr Steward but then finds itself unable to pull away as water threatens to swamp the lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Shira
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...
Llfeboat Services
South Eastern Division Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower...
Category: Services
Padstow
PADSTOW, CORNWALL On the 23rd November, 1944, the Padstow life-boat rescued seven of the crew of the S.S. Sjofna, of Norway., SECOND MOTOR MECHANIC WILLIAM ORCHARD, acting as coxswain, was awarded the silver medal.
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Category: Medals
Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat Mbe Jp Dl
August 1998 Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat MBE JP DL Longhope president and exhonorary secretary. Jackie was appointed secretary in 1962 a position he was to hold for 33 years. He was awarded the the MBE in 1985, the Gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, 13th day of March, 1883, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of...
Category: Annual Reports
The Naming at Cowes of Rnlb Sir Max Aitken Ii
ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 STORNOWAY'S NEW 52FT ARUN LIFEBOAT WHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA named the new Stornoway lifeboat on Thursday February 23 it was a doubly historic occasion for, almost 30 years before, her mother the Duchess of Kent,...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat Returning from the "Bardic."
The Life-Boat Returning From The "Bardic". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs