LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Anne Noonan was 20 years old when she gave birth to her son aboard a merchant ship lying off the Cornish coast. The Fravizo had no doctor aboard so her Captain requested that Anne and baby Tim be taken ashore for a...

On the 21st October the motor life-boat The Rankin took a surgeon and a nurse to Papa Stour, where a man was seriously ill, and an immediate operation was necessary if his life was to be saved.—The Depart- ment of Health for Scotland paid...

The local fishing cobles put to sea on the morning of the 2nd November, but bad weather got up and by 7.15 A.M. all of them, except the Dorotkyand the Sunbeam, had returned.

At 9.30 A.M. a strong N.W. gale was blowing, with...

THE Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society completed its first hundred years of work in February, 1939. The Institu- tion sent its cordial congratulations to the Society on its magnificent record of 897,801...

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HARTLEPOOL. SEAMEN'S LIFE-BOAT.—This boat, of the establishment of which, by the seamen of Hartlepool, we gave a description in our last number, has soon had opportunities for rendering essential service, and so of effecting the humane...

Good nutrition is the foundation of a long and healthy lifespan.

From the day we are born,good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most important ways that each of us can help ourselves to a...

AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...