LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gael Force
Tá na báid ar snámh san fharraige, Slán abhaile go dtaga na fir. The boats are floating on the sea, May the men come safely home.
Irish folk song
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Category: Articles
Above Left: a Recently Shorn David Glynn Receives a £100
Above left: A recently shorn David Glynn receives a £100 cheque boost to his sponsorship total from Internet Promotions,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 31ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed over the Naze, and the pilot was seen to leave the machine by parachute, but he could not be found, and it was learnt later that he had come down on land. - Rewards, £6...
An Aeroplane (1)
JANUARY 5TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down, but within a few minutes of launching the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard.
- Rewards, £5 14s..
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obvarte.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, It mlnnte letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness." Reverie.—Three...
Category: Medals
Service to Yacht Aground Off Weymouth Pier
Mr. Donald Laker, a member of the Weymouth life-boat crew who went overboard to swim to a yacht with a line, has been awarded the bronze medal for gallantry. The thanks of the Institution on vellum have been accorded collectively to the...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (67)
AUGUST 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 1.32 A.M. the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the sea. The weather was calm. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Philpott was launched at 2 A.M. When she was off Ecclesbourne...
Flying Lessons
Following the announcement in the winter issue of The Lifeboat, the RNLI has started testing a 7.6m (25ft) hovercraft to assess its potential as a new rescue vehicle. The six-sealer craft is being tested in Poole harbour over a variety of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
More Than £1000 Was Collected at the Third Annual Wine Lasting Evening Organised Bv Lymm Branch
More than £1,000 was collected at the third annual wine lasting evening organised bv Lvmm branch. Nenrlv 150 people sampled various wines on offer, supplied bv G and J Greenall. Pictured lasting one of the wines arc Chris Miller,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Open Fishing Coble
FISHING BOATS IN DANGER Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At about 1.80 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, with a southerly gale blowing, heavy seas and an ebbing tide, an open fishing coble and seven other fishing boats were seen outside...