LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blizzard Did Not Deter
ADDITIONAL monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Courtmacsherry' Co. Cork, life-boat for the service they undertook to the French trawler Obelix on 18th February, 1969, in the worst local weather for...
Category: Services
Brownies of the 4Th Bishopbriggs Pack Glasgow Seen With Guider Mrs Sheena Smith Give the Income of Their Monthly Tuck Shop to the Lifeboat Service Gradually Th
Brownies of the 4th Bishopbriggs Pack, Glasgow, seen with Guider.
Mrs Sheena Smith, give the income of their monthly tuck shop to the lifeboat service. Gradually their contribution has increased: 1973, £3.40: 1974.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lleyn Peninsula: Abersoch Criccieth Porthdinllaen and Pwllheli By Joan Davies
JUTTING OUT boldly into the Irish Sea, open to winter gales from most points of the compass, the beautiful Lleyn Peninsula of North Wales has its share of hazards to shipping. Over the years many vessels have been wrecked on its shores and...
Category: Articles
Hoylake Life-Boat and An IRB Seen Recently When Trials Were Taking Place on the River Dee
Hoylake Life-Boat and An Irb Seen Recently When Trials Were Taking Place on the River Dee. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The British Merchant Seaman
"THE British seaman, though, he might be better, has not grown worse, and is plentiful enough for the requirements of trade." "No case is made out for the inter- ference of Government to increase the number, or improve the...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, of Cardigan
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.
He retired in 1920 on account...
Category: Obituaries
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Category: Advertisement
The Mail Steamer St. Sunniva
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
An Open Motor Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.15 on the morningofthe 18th of February, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S. Arnhem, coming from Holland, had sighted an open motor boat near Beach End buoy. The motor boat appeared to have broken down...
Robin Knox-Johnston
Robin Knox-Johnston (r), the yachtsman and a member of the RNLI's committee of management, had a bet with Don Wood (I) on who would be first to Lowestoft in the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race. The stake was 20 pairs of boots for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs