LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hughie Green's Autograph Session
It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...
Category: Articles
Mr. James A. Gardiner, Campbeltown
Mr. James A. Gardiner, of Campbel- town, Argyllshire, who died on 19th January, 1938, at the age of seventy- eight, had been one of the most dis- tinguished honorary workers of the Institution in Scotland. He was honor- ary secretary of...
Category: Obituaries
The Motor Fishing Boats Easter Morn, Gem, Pilot Me, Jessie Ann, and Mona
FEBRUARY 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning the fishing boats went to sea. The sea got up and made it very dangerous for the boats to cross the bar on their return. At 2.45 in the afternoon the No. 1 motor...
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in March were Carried out by the Following Stations
NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Filey, Yorkshire - At 3.5 p.m. on 28th March, 1967, news was received that a small boat had capsized in the bay and had fired a flare. The IRB was launched at 3.10 in a strong north westerly wind and a smooth sea. It...
Category: Services
The Natural Navigator
The Natural Navigator
By Tristan Gooley
Review by David Price
Let this book take you back to navigational basics with some intriguing techniques.
It is...
Category: Articles
Dell Quay Productions Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Money
Cardiff ladies' guild increased their income in 1976 by about 30 per cent.
Of the £5,010 they raised for the lifeboat service last year £1,460 was by way of their annual collection and £1,000 was the...
Category: Donations
Touching distance
A severed finger, no engine, rough seas: that was the harsh reality a yacht skipper faced off the Devon coast at the end of April. So how would he reach hospital?
‘All we knew when we launched...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (25)
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...
Hayling Island - Double Silver Medal Service, 25 October 1992. the Photograph Shows the Difficult and Hazardous Conditions In Which the Rescue Took Place. Coa
Hayling Island - double silver medal service, 25 October 1992. The photograph shows the difficult and hazardous conditions in which the rescue took place.
Coastguard helicopter attempting to pass a hi-line to the crew of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs