LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship’s Boat (2)
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
A ship’s boat had been seen adrift, but she was empty, waterlogged and riddled with machine-gun bullets. - Reward, £4 6s. 6d.
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JANUARY 7TH. - BALLYCOTTON CO. CORK. Machine-gun fire from aircraft thought to be attacking fishing vessels had been heard, but no vessels in need of help were found. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d.
Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970,
Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970, and the earlier house-to-house collection. Both were organised by Mrs. Norman Clarke, secretary of the Colchester ladies' life-boat guild, whose husband... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above - Medallists
Above - Medallists from left to right Ian Leask Lerwick - Bronze Mecal, Michael Grant. Lerwick- Bronze Medal. Peter Thomson, Le Bronze Medal. Brian Laurenson Lerwick.
Bronze Medal. Richie Simpson. : tvvwcfc. Bronze Medal;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bronze-Medal Service at Longhope
AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...
Category: Services
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Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—30th November. A Government balloon had drifted out to sea, and the life-boats put out, but were recalled, as the balloon was filled with dangerous gas.—Rewards, Newhaven, £16 16s.; Shoreham,...
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April
Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special meeting. Branch formed. Lieut.-Colonel G. F. Doland, O.B.E., J.P., M.P., L.CC., patron; the Mayor of Wandsworth, president; Kngr. Rear-Admiral W. M. Whayman, C.B., Councillor Evan Rees, M.I.G...
Category: Branches
Letter of Appreciation
EX-COXSWAIN EDOUARD BOISARD, of the Barfleur, France, life-boat, has received a letter of appreciation from the Institution in recognition of his services to English yachts and other vessels over many years. The letter also congratulated...
Category: Correspondence
Brave new world
Lifesavers from across Asia and Africa are sharing new-found skills with their lifesaving organisations, thanks to a course run by the RNLI.
An estimated 1.2M people drown around the world every year – more than the number...
Category: Articles
Talvaldis (1)
JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...