LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Important Meeting at Grosvenor House
AN Invitation Meeting, called by the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Grosvenor House (by the kind permission of theDUKE OP WESTMINSTER) on the 15th July last, for the purpose of forming a Ladies'...
Category: Meetings
Lady Margaret, Georgina II and Pandora B
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1952, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat reported that the motor pleasure launch Lady Margaret, of Middles- brough, had gone aground on the harbour bar. The tide was too...
Classified Advertisements
The format of the classified section will change in the spring 1985 issue to a four column page. Each advertisement wilt be in a box rule and the cost per single column centimetre will be £11. The minimum size of an advertisement will...
Category: Advertisement
Books
• John Kennedy served as honorary secretary at the Lytham lifeboat station from 1951 to 1976 and from this position he was able to observe every facet of the life of the station. He has now put pen to paper and the result is one of the most...
Category: Articles
A Government Sea Plane
The Life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 1.10 P.M. on the 27th September to the assistance of a seaplane belonging to the Government.
The seaplane had come from Sheerness and been beached near Hasborough...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN STOREY, after serving 44 years as a member of the Crew of the Newbiggin Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate.
To GEORGE McLEOD, on his retirement, after serving 5 years as Coxswain of the Lossiemouth...
Category: Awards
Harborough
Penlee, Cornwall.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 9th of December, 1956, a message was received from a doctor that a vessel, which was making for Mounts Bay with an injured man on board, had asked for the life-boat to bring him...
Audacity (1)
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
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Community spirit The residents of the tranquil island of Alderney in the Channel Islands are reknowned for being laid back, but with three lives in danger, the community sprang into actionA 13-year-old girl was knocked off her feet and swept...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
Category: Services