LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ONE of the most original and successful efforts on behalf of the funds of the Institution was carried out at Bedford on 27th June. It was an historical pageant organised by the Bedford Rotary Club, and was followed by a military tattoo. The...

Glasgow, October 23/24, 1987 On a bright but cool autumn morning the new 52ft Arun class lifeboat Citv of Glasgow III. now on station at Troon, arrived on the River Clyde in readiness to play the starring role in proceedings which, the...

How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1938.

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Howth, Co. Dublin. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the life-boat R.P.L. left her station for Malahide with twelve collectors for the local flag day on board. She arrived at 2.45, and a quarter of an hour later...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.57 in the morning on the 4th of August, 1951, the Needles coastguard telephoned the life-boat authorities that the S.S.

Ringwood had reported people from a capsized boat hanging on to Sconce...

TOW OF YACHT TAKEN OVER Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.5 on the night of the 13th June, 1963, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wheelsman had taken in tow the yacht Angela of Ramsgate, which had broken down...

Speedboat sinks ON THE MORNING of Easter Sunday April 7, 1985, Brixham coastguard received a report from a member of the public that a speedboat had sunk on Pole Sands and that there were some people in the water. Fifteen minutes later, at...

The following letter and a cheque for 3Q dollars from Mr, Charles de Burgh Daly (Chuck Daly) was received by his aunt, Mrs. E. Stewart of Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, and forwarded to the Courtmacsherry life-boat branch: "The. White House,...