LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Knaresborough Ladies' Guild By Kind Permission of Their Chairman Mrs Mary Thornton and Her Husband Tony Held a Most Successful Gymkhana on Sunday May 8 At
Knaresborough ladies' guild, by kind permission of their chairman, Mrs Mary Thornton and her husband Tony, held a most successful gymkhana on Sunday, May 8, at Gibbet Farm which raised £563 for the lifeboat service. The guild's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part VI: Trials
EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...
Category: Articles
The Belgian Motor Trawler Ibis
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT DUNMORE EAST FEBRUARY 28TH and MARCH 1ST.- DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD.
At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th the motor life-boat C. & S., of Dunmore East, was launched to the help of the...
Lifeboat People
Birthday and New Year's Honours QBE Horace Kemball Greaves, secretary, Manchester Savings Committee. After the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat in 1947 Mr Greaves, then town treasurer of Swansea and honorary secretary of the Swansea branch,...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind...
Category: Services
Functional Clothing
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Category: Advertisement
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...
Category: Articles
The Autumn Ball Held By Wells Branch
The autumn ball held by Wells branch at the Bishop's Palace last September was an outstanding success and very much enjoyed. As well as a raffle there was an auction for a cricket bat signed by Somerset and Gloucestershire cricket teams... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Navena
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of...
A Speed Boat
Not under command A MESSAGE came to Yarmouth Coastguard from Norfolk Police at 1700 on Wednesday August 12, 1981, to say that a speedboat was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach, Heacham, and a child had been hit; an...