LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Eva Sugden 106 on July 20
Mrs Eva Sugden, 106 on July 20, must indeed be the RNLI's oldest supporter. She is believed to have been the founder member of Spenborough ladies' guild, formed in 1928, of which at one time she was honorary secretary and of which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann Speeds Away from SS Canberra With Her 'Medivac' Casualty, Seen Being Transferred In the Inset Photo.
Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann speeds away from SS Canberra with her 'medivac' casualty, seen being transferred in the inset photo.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy and Lady Loren
Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.
on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in...
All That Remains
All that remained of Green Lily just two days after she went ashore.. - View image in PDF
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Starting All Over
Anyone who has seen an Atlantic righted after a capsize - hopefully only as a demonstration during Open Days - and then seen the engines restart 'on the button' cannot help but be impressed.
Such reliability does...
Category: Articles
The Merchant Shipping Act. Second Article
Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...
Category: Songs
Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Act, 1873
IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...
Category: Articles
Matchbox Holders Cigarette Boxes Ami Framed Pictures of Scenes Based Upon the Shetlands Including the Old Man of Hoy All Made from Inatchsticks By Mrs D Laino
Matchbox holders, cigarette boxes ami framed pictures of scenes based upon the Shetlands, including The Old Man of Hoy, all made from inatchsticks by Mrs D. Lainont, chairman of Crimxhy ladies' guild, have already raised £50 for the... - View image in PDF
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George and Ann, of Cardigan
A severe gale was experienced at Peterhead, N.B., on the 22nd September, and two heavily-laden fishing-boats which had been proceeding northward made for the harbour. One, being more to the southward, was enabled to sail wi^h.j-her bow to...
Ann Elizabeth and Brigantine Commodore
The Ilfracombe life-boat also went off twice on the 19th October, and saved the sloop Ann Elizabeth, of Barnstaple, and the brigantine Commodore, of Waterford, and their crews, consisting of 8 men.
During a strong gale...