LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Great Rail Journeys
TYROLEAN WINTER BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Trove/ with the UK's hading specialist in holidays by rail on this sensational 10-day holiday to the snow covered mountains of the Austrian Tyrol.
A friendly and professional Tour...
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Your Letters
The North West Passage - who was first? I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West...
Category: Correspondence
Brownies Were By Far the Greatest Moneyspinners In the Guide Friendship Fund Lifeboat Project: 1St.Woodseaves Brownies Sent In £33 After a Sponsored Skip — to Reac
Brownies were by far the greatest moneyspinners in the Guide Friendship Fund lifeboat project: 1st Woodseaves Brownies sent in £33 after a sponsored skip — to reach their target, each of 24 girls had to make 50... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Casamance (3)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
The Duke of Kent's
The Duke of Kent's first visit on Orkney on May 10 was to Longhope where he laid a wreath at the memorial to the eight lifeboatmen who lost their lives in the disaster of 1969. The Memorial was unveiled by HM The Queen Mother in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Launch
Cadets and yachtsmen saved by Arun's Y-boat Force 5 onshore winds made life difficult for the crew of Troon's Arun City of Glasgow III when they had to launch their Y-boat twice during July to take survivors off a lee shore.
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
Category: Services
A Small Boat from Kingsley
Clovelly, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th cf May, 1948, the Rev.
H. C. A. S. Muller, of Appledore. landed in a small boat from the motor pleasure boat Kingsley, of Barnstaple, and reported that the boat's...
A Fishing Vessel
Difficult launch A REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD that a small fishing vessel was in trouble in the Dee estuary was received by Hoylake lifeboat station at 1050 on the morning of Monday March 24, 1986. A north-north-westerly force 8 gale,...
Letters
Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...
Category: Correspondence