LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heswall and Gayton Ladies' Guild Celebrated Its Tenth Anniversary With a Dinner Party Last February Attended By 50 Guests It Was Held at the Homes of Mrs Sonia James
Heswall and Gayton ladies' guild celebrated its tenth anniversary with a dinner party last February attended by 50 guests. It was held at the homes of Mrs Sonia James, chairman, and Mrs R. Walker, ex-chairman. A special birthday cake in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Film Winner In Italy
A 24-MiNUTE film on the life-boat service, Part-Time Heroes, won a silver cup presented by the Ministry of Naval Defence when shown this year at a review of maritime docu- mentaries during the Milan Fair.
The film shows a...
Category: Articles
Jenny Wren
Crew transferred to casualty in near-gale conditions The chief of operations has written to Bembridge lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their efforts during a five-hour service in rough conditions on 14 July...
The Icelandic Coaster Tungufoss
Coaster founders AN ICELANDIC COASTER, Tungufoss, in distress four miles south of Longships Lighthouse, was reported by Land's End Coastguard to the deputy launching authority of Sennen Cove lifeboatstation at 2027 on Saturday September...
The Drilling Rig William Allpress
RIG SERVICE IN 60 KNOT GALE AROUND 1.30 p.m. on 19th October, 1971, it was learnt that the crew of the drilling rig William Allpress were in need of assistance. The rig was anchored J mile off Rustington, Sussex, and had been in this...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE The cover for the first issue of THE LIFEBOAT for 1974—the RNLI's 150th yearis reproduced from an old coloured lantern slide believed to have formed part of 'the first advertising campaign for RNLI on magic lantern...
Category: Drawings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEA, AND LLAN- DDULAS, DENBIGHSHIRE.—One of the new self-righting Life-boats, with the water- ballast fittings, has been placed at Llan- ddwyn by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in the place of a smaller Boat...
Category: Articles
Nestlea and Dereske
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
The Presentation Which Stopped the Show! Eric Was There on Behalf of the House of Seagram to Present a Cheque for £10,000 to Commander F. R. H. Swann, Cbe R
The presentation which stopped the show!Eric was there on behalf of the House of Seagram to present a cheque for £10,000 to Commander F. R. H.
Swann, CBE RNVR, chairman of the Committee of Management, but he added his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Edward VII, of Grimsby
Thurso.
At ten at night, on the 2nd February, a message was received that a vessel had gone ashore on Brims Ness, six miles from Thurso, the scene of many wrecks. She was found later to be the trawler Edward VII., of...