LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Anniversary Morning Market Harborough ladies' guild celebrated its 21st anniversary year by holding a birthday coffee morning at the home of Mrs Roland Orton, president and founder of the guild.
The party was to thank...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats of Southern Eire
IREI.ANDS LINKS with the RNLI are almost as old as the Institution itself and the tradition of lifesaving around its rugged coastline stretches back to the turn of the century.
Guarding the busy shipping lanes bringing...
Category: Articles
Wreck of Le Vieux Tigre at Beast Point
This steam trawler went ashore on 27th March, 1935, in a fog, and her crew of eighteen were rescued by the motor life-boat at The Lizard. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
South/Midlands/East Community News
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: The Bedford Sixth Form, Elmfield School for the Deaf, RNLI/(Dereham Branch, Nathan Williams), Simon Trafford
Welcome to your community news for the South, Midlands and East. For the latest from...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Monev
'A Queen's Gala' at Pitcaple Castle, Inverurie, on Sunday June 10 raised £1,600 for the lifeboat service. During the afternoon six scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots were danced on the lawn by pupils of the Anne...
Category: Donations
Life-Saving and the United States Coast Guard
MARITIME safety in the United States took a giant step forward on the 28th of January, 1915, when two historic agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service, were merged into a single organization known as the United States...
Category: Articles
Knockdown from Page 86
from page 86 in the boat, that is the main thing. To get them back out of the water is the problem. If you keep them in the boat you will not have to pick men out of the water in seas that are still liable to capsize you. The crew should be...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (27)
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
Stromness: First Lifeboat Station In Orkney By Joan Davies
TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1983
Aberdovery, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 3,10,15,18,19 (twice), 28 and September 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 11, 14, 15, 16, 26, 27, September 1 (twice), 4,7,11,19 and 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: August 3, 6, 7, 13,19...
Category: Services