LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lt. Commander Peter Morton Rn Rtd
Lt. Commander Peter Morton RN Rtd, committee member of Okehampton branch for over 30 years. Over £800 was given to the RNLI in his memory..
Category: Obituaries
Bjornstjerna Bjornson
SOTJTHPORT, LAKCASHIKE.—Shortly before 12 o'clock on the night of the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the W.N.W., rockets were fired, and a bright light was shown by a vessel in distress.
With the utmost speed...
Book Reviews
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
Winona and H.M. Trawler Commander Holbrook
NOVEMBER 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.20 A.M. the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that rockets had been seen, and later it was learned that the British steamer Winona was aground five miles N.E. 1/2 E. from...
The S.S. Keila and S.S. Lady Anstruther
STEAMERS IN COLLISION IN FOG The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 9.25 in the morning of the 16th of August, 1947, the Mablethorpe coastguard re- ported that the.S.S. Keila, of Glasgow, had been in collision in a fog with the S.S. Lady Anstruther...
Peter Jones China
THE ROYAL EVENT OF THE YEAR! The 40th Anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's Accession to the Throne.
LIMITED EDITION 500 SIX MAGNIFICENT COMMEMORATIVE PIECES TO HONOUR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH ll ...
Category: Advertisement
Sunday Concerts
THE Committee of Management have had before them the question of Sunday concerts and other Sunday entertain- ments ; and it has been represented to them that support for the Life-boat Cause may be made an excuse for the promotion of Sunday...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (From Page 190}
Lifeboat Services (from page 190} Enterprise dinghy Spirtle with one man on board, at 1648. The Pentland Firth Yacht Club's guard boat, The Mendicant, was still in attendance but was unable to make headway in the prevailing...
Category: Services
A Yacht
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 2.27 p.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the Baily lighthouse keeper told the honorary secretary that a yacht with two people on board was in difficulties off Rosbeg buoy. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her...
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FLOATS MISTAKEN FOR MEN Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford.—At 9.40 in the morning of the 21st of October, 1947, information was received that what appeared to be a partly sub- merged boat with three men clinging to it had been seen in...