LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tributes to Sir George Shee
Torbay Motor Life-boat to be Named after Him.
AT their meeting on 17th September the Committee of Management resolved to " mark their high appreciation of Sir George Shee, as Secretary of the Institu- tion for...
Category: Articles
The Help of Mayors and Mayoresses. A Record?
St. Albans Answers the Challenge.
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave the Southport Branch's record of mayoral help. The Mayor, during his term of office, serves as a member of the Branch Committee, while the...
Category: Articles
Mercantile Credit
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Category: Advertisement
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1877
Jan.3.—Three men of Budleigh Salterton,Devon- shire, saved 2 Coastguardmen, whose boat, while they were crossing the river Otter on duty, had been carried down the river by the current and wrecked against the rocks at Otter Point, during a...
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Bookshelf
The History of the Plymouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 The second edition of one of Jeff Moriss's comprehensive local lifeboat guides, which brings the history of this particular station up to 1994.<...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE PERSISTENCE AND DEDICATION which RNLI supporters have shown in a period of exceptional financial stringency give, at the time of going to press, reasonable grounds for optimism about the financial results in 1976. Encouraging support has...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boatman's Log
France Honours the Life-boat Service A Decoration for a Cornish ex-Coxswain ON the 14th of July last, a reception was held at University College, South- ampton to mark the celebrations of France's national day, Le Quatorze...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (3)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
A Disabled Schooner
The Cenesta, of Harwich, on 3rd September, with ber sails blown away, in tow of a tug, with the Plymouth Motor Life-boat escorting her.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat
17th Octo- ber. A fishing boat was wrecked on Portmadoc Bar, and before the life- boat could reach her the crew of two had been swept away and drowned.— Rewards, £7 16*. 6d..