LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three M.B.E's
Three honorary secretaries of life-boat stations, Mr. Walter Riggs, of Aldeburgh, Mr. G. Scantlebury, of Plymouth, and Mr. G. L. Thomson, of Stromness, Orknays, were made Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours in...
Category: Articles
A Tank Oil Steamer The San Ricardo
On the 14th March, during smooth but hazy weather, signals of distress were heard from a vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched and was tracked by the crew to the end of the North Pier where she was picked up by a tug and towed...
Crossing the Bar In a Hurricane
AT 2.20 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Hartland Point informed the honorary secretary of the Appledore life-boat station, Captain P. Brennan, that the Polish vessel Gliwice was in distress ten miles west-by...
Category: Services
Gordon Knight Chairman of the Volvo National Dealers Association Draws the Winning Ticket the Scottish Volvo Draw Outside the Rnli's Scottish Headquarters
Gordon Knight Chairman of the Volvo National Dealers Association Draws The Winning Ticket The Scottish Volvo Draw Outside The Rnli's Scottish Headquarters. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Beach Lifeguard Arancia Rescue Boat
The Beach Lifeguard Arancia rescue boat and the Exmouth D class Spirit of the f xe rescue the yacht Channel Dancer Photo: Rodney Mackintosh. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
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During the Recent Golden Wonder Promotion
During the recent Go/den Wonder promotion where money, in exchange for tokens from crisp packets, was donated to the RNLI, the pupils of Chennestone Middle School, Sunbury- on-Thames, collected 1,500 tokens. At a rate of 5p donated for every... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day
The organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day really know how to pull a crowd. This was the start last summer of the raft race as the numerous strangely clad contestants paddled past Teesmouth lifeboat. Also taking place that day was the now... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
That sinking feeling
MACDUFF AND BUCKIE | 21 JUNE
A lone skipper triggered an early morning rescue on Father’s Day after snagging a propeller and finding that his vessel had been holed. The boat – a decommissioned trawler...
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