LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saved for a Third Time
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.
Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four...
Category: Services
Right Way Up' the Rnli Exhibition Held at the Science Musuem Kensington This Summer Was Opened By Jimmy Savile Obe He Is Seen (Right) With Richard Oakley
'Right Way Up', the RNLI exhibition held at the Science Musuem, Kensington, this summer, was opened by Jimmy Savile, OBE. He is seen (right) with Richard Oakley, MBE, (r.) designer of the first modern selfrighting lifeboat, the37ft... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
Category: Committee
A Royal Air Force Flying Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire. —• 20th September, 1938. A Royal Air Force flying-boat had crashed, and a search was made for two men who were missing from her, but without result.— Rewards, £15 8s. 6d..
The Hillman Air Liner G-ACPM
Dover, Kent.—2nd October. The Hillman air liner G-ACPM crashed in the Channel, and broke in pieces, all seven on board being killed.—Rewards, £2 17s..
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent...
Category: Articles
Help of Navy and Air Force.
The Navy and Air Force have been no less generous. During 1940 the Navy contributed £2099, nearly five times as much as in 1939. The appeal to the Air Force was made in September 1940. Up to the end of February 1941 the contributions...
Category: Articles
Concerto and Martez (2)
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
We Skied Everest!
Crew Member Richard Jones joins youngsters Timothy and Daniel Cunningham who both completed 47 runs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Totland
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the ketch Totland, with a man, his wife and four children on board, was drifting near the Stones reef. At 5.35 the life-boat Edgar,...