LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Volunteer
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AFTER ENGINE BREAKDOWN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.27 p.m. on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the Shoreham coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Volunteer, of Shoreham, was making distress...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to ttem, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Thanks from British Railways
The British Railways IRB station, which was established in May, 1968, on the south side of the River Tay to provide protection for the teams of workmen on the bridge, receives training assistance from the Droughty Ferry...
Category: Donations
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Difficult conditions as two casualties are taken from the shore The rescue of two people cut off by the tide in difficult and dangerous conditions has led to Sean Baxter, the helmsman of Staithes and Runswick's Atlantic 21 lifeboat,...
On Passage to St. Abbs
The new St. Abbs 37-foot Oakley life-boat, Jane Hay, sailed from Osborne's yard, Littlehampton, at 8 a.m. on 3ist October, 1964. Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, was...
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Racing Dinghies
Racing dinghies ON AN OVERCAST Sunday morning, May 3, dinghies from several sailing clubs on the River Blackwater had started racing when they were overtaken by deteriorating weather; soon after 1100 the strong westerly breeze was already...
Lytham St.Anne's (Below Left): Dedication of the Ilb Funded By the North West Green Shield Stamp Appeal Atlantic 21 Wolverhampton (Below Right) Is Named By The
Lytham St Anne's (below, left): Dedication of the ILB funded by the North West Green Shield Stamp appeal.
Atlantic 21 Wolverhampton (below, right) is named by the Mayor.
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Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers. Made Since May, 1947
Honorary Life-Governor The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MRS....
Category: Awards
Sophia, of Naples
On the 25th of November the services of the Ramsgate life-boat were again brought into requisition. At daybreak on that day, the wind blowing a heavy gale at the time from N.N.W., a brigantine was observed, with signals of distress flying,...
The Margate Motor Life-Boat at Calais
ON th« invitation of the Mayor of Calais a party representing the Life-boat Stations on the Kentish coast crossed to Calais on Sunday, 14th August, in the Margate Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough, to be present at the unveiling, on the...
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