LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles and A Parachute
FEBRUARY 7TH. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The Filey motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 1.10 in the afternoon to stand by the local fishing cobles as a strong south-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. When the...
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Presenting Captain J. D. Jeavons, a Member of the Crew of the Moelfre Life-Boat, With the Bronze Medal for his Part in the Nafsiporos Episode on 2nd December, 1966
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, presenting Captain J. D.
Jeavons, a member of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat, with the bronze medal for his part in the Nofsiporos episode on 2nd December, 1966 (see THE LIFE-BOAT for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Isa
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the night of the 21st December, during a thick fog, the schooner Isa, of Inverness, bound from Charlestown for Euncorn with a cargo of china clay, struck on the Dolas Bocks and became a total wreck. On the following...
One Thousand Pairs of Odd Sized Shoes Raised About £2000 for the Wolverhampton Branch a Local Shoe Dealer Very Kindly Donated 2000 New But Odd Sized Shoes
One thousand pairs of odd sized shoes raised about £2,000 for the Wolverhampton branch. A local shoe dealer very kindly donated 2,000 new, but odd sized shoes. The branch made up 1,000 pairs of shoes within a size of each other. Prices... - View image in PDF
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(Below) to Celebrate His 65Th Birthday and 50 Years of Lifeboat Service a Special Cake and Presentations for Alfred Payne Westonsuper- Mare's Coxswain from 1948 to 197
(Below) To celebrate his 65th birthday and 50 years of lifeboat service, a special cake and presentations for Alfred Payne, Westonsuper- Mare's coxswain from 1948 to 1970.
Mr Payne had been second coxswain before that... - View image in PDF
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Philip Biidden Jonathan Makins and Richard and Simon Folkes from Charterhouse School Hand Over a Cheque for £1110 to Commander Swann Chairman
Philip Biidden, Jonathan Makins and Richard ami Simon Folkcs, from Charterhouse School, hand over a cheque for i.1,110 to Commander /•'. ./? H. Swann, Chairman of the RNLI. They, with Sehan Anketall (who was unable to be present), raised... - View image in PDF
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Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited America
Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited A merica and left RNLI tea towels at United States Coast Guard bases. Here one of the tea towels is being displayed at the San Francisco base. They were purchased by Mr Pearcy from the... - View image in PDF
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The Record Month by Month
1943 January . 32 76 February . 34 55 March . 33 42 April . . 23 10 May . . 32 24 June . . 29 9 July . . 27 15 August . 41 92 September . 29 42 October . 30 19 November . 49 31 December . 52 54 - - - 5 - - - 3 - - - 3 Totals . 411 469 Number...
Category: Annual Reports
Pilot Me, Success, Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1955, it was reported that four local fishing boats were still at sea. Conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous, and at 1.54 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworih was launched....
A Rescue—Described By the Rescued. The Yacht Gull and the Shoreham Harbour Life-Boat
ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....
Category: Services