LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat People
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: January Horace Eric Pengilly, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboat from 1967 to 1968 and then coxswain/mechanic until 1978. He had served as second coxswain from 1963 to 1967 and...
Category: Articles
We Ask the Questions
The lifeboat service relies heavily on its network of branches, guilds and volunteer fundraisers to bring in the money, so it is important that the best tools for the job are readily available to those who need them.
The...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
October Meeting.
EOSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD.
—On 20th September the Royal Firth, of...
Category: Services
Karemma Ashore After Her Crew of Five Had Been Taken Off By the 52' Barnett Lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on Her Last Service at Aberdeen Photograph By Courtesy of Aberdee
Karemma ashore after her crew of five had been taken off by the 52' Barnett lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on her last service at Aberdeen . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE November 17, 1974, and all is quiet at Wells-next-the-sea: Wells 37' Oakley lifeboat, Ernest Tom Nethercoat, moored at the quay, waits to be rehoused after launching on service the previous evening. After a report of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 30th April, 1925.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the Chair.
Reported the resignation from the Committee of Management of Engineer Vice- Admiral Sir GEORGE G. GOODWIN,...
Category: Committee
BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
The...
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Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1905
SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 609) £. s. d. £. ». d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 36 16 6 Dunnett Widows and Orphans Fund 126 4 6 Reardon Samaritan Fund 133 10...
Category: Accounts
The Wreck Register and Chart
IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Spain
By DON PEDRO DE NOVO Y COLSON, General Secretary of the Sociedad Espanola de Salvamento de Naufragos.
THE Society was founded in December, 1880 (under the patronage of H.M. Queen Dona Maria Cristina, its first protecting...
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