LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
A Welsh Folk Night was held last August at the Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwyth, to raise funds for the station's new lifeboat. Soloists, including Helmsman Alan Blair, provided the Welsh flavour but the evening ended with a hilarious...
Category: Articles
The Fund Raisers
Less food, more money It has become a tradition that, at the end of the annual conference of the marketing and sales division of Ciba- Geigy UK, delegates are served a ploughman's lunch and the difference in price between that and the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1900.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
In the Great Gale of November 23rd, 1938 (1)
In The Great Gale of November 23Rd 1938. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Readers' Letters and Information
Dear Editor Having been a Shoreline supporter for many years and now an Offshore member, I thought I would write in and air my views on lilos, rubber rings and inflatable dinghies, which are sold at seaside shops: can't we get these toys...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio...
Category: Services
Here and There
'A Queen's Gala' will be staged on Sunday June 10 in the beautiful grounds of Pitcaple Castle, Aberdeenshire, where Mary Queen of Scots was entertained in 1562. An afternoon of fun will include dancing scenes from the life of...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
FOWEY (POLKERRIS), CORNWALL. On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request...
Category: Services
An Angling Boat
October hurricane BRONZE MEDAL AT 0559 ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 during the height of the infamous hurricane which hit Southern England that day, Thames Coastguard MRSC reported to Coxswain/Mechanic Robin Castle, of Sheerness that red...
An American Flying Fortress (1)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north by east of Seahouses. She was an...