LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
Category: Articles
A Single-Handed Rescue By a Skye Fisherman
THE Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Mr. Kenneth Macleod, a fisherman of Pooltiel, Isle of Skye, for rescuing single-handed in a small rowing boat three fishermen whose boat had been wrecked. On the afternoon of the...
Category: Awards
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1929. Presentation of Prizes In the London District
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 6th February the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of prizes won in the Life-boat Essay Competi- tion in London (consisting of schools in the London County...
Category: Articles
Pacific and the S.S. Dunnett Head
Southend'on-Sea, Essex. — On 15th February, 1938, the signal station at the pierhead reported that a barge was in distress off Grain Spit and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 12.5 P.M. A whole...
The Belgian Motor Vessel Eminent
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWBIGGIN FEBRUARY 4TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of the 3rd of February, 1940, the Belgian motor vessel Eminent, of Antwerp, with a crew of nine men, was on her way to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Last Year the Braunton and District Branch of the RNLI In North Devon Organised a Number of Efforts the First Being a Raffle Involving a Model Tug Made By An Appledor
Last year the Braunton and district branch of the R.N.L.I, in North Devon organised a number of efforts, the first being a raffle involving a model tug made by an Appledore man. It raised during the summer over £60. Picture shows Mr. A.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Atlantic 21 Mike Pennell Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats (Eastern) at the Controls
(right) Atlantic 21, Mike Pennell, divisional inspector of lifeboats (eastern) at the controls.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: RNLI Ream Members With Compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.
Right: RNLI ream members with compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.. - View image in PDF
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Torbay, Devon - At 10.51 p.m. on ist August, 1966, a boy was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Sharkham point.
At 11.15 tne life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings with a boarding boat in tow. There...
M.V. Cantonad
Storm search BRIXHAM COASTGUARD asked the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2030 on Thursday January 4 to put the lifeboat on stand by for MV Cantonad, a 2,200 ton Greek freighter with a crew of 16, reported listing...