LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Boy rescued TWO PEOPLE IN THE SEA at Rocky Valley, Bossiney, near Tintagel, 6.7 miles from Port Isaac, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Port Isaac lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1326 on Monday August 14,...
The Record of 1928
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT has been a year of splendid achievement for the Life-boat Service, overshadowed by a great tragedy.
During the year the Institution gave rewards for the rescue of no fewer than 591 lives....
Category: Annual Reports
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
When Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales visited Grimsby in July she was presented with a miniature model of Humbers's 54ft Arun lifeboat City of Bradford IV by the Mayor, Councillor Anthony Rouse. The model was made by Brian... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ocean Pearl
HOWTH, co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 7 succeeded in saving the ketch Ocean Pearl, of Wexford, and her crew of three hands on the 13th February. Shortly after 10 A.M. a message was received telephone that a vessel was drifting...
Book Review
" THE LIFE-BOAT AND ITS STORY." By Noel T. Methley. Sidgwick and Jack- son. 7s. 6d.
In our May issue we briefly noted the publication of this book, which reached us too late for review. As the Life- boat Journal...
Category: Articles
Sand Runner
LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....
A Fishing Vessel
ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot...
RNLI Staff Changes
Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., has been appointed Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. He will succeed Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., who is retiring at the end of the year from the post of Secretary after nearly 40 years in the...
Category: Committee
Margaret and Elizabeth
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, at about 9 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from S.E. with a blinding snowstorm, a trawler entered the harbour and reported that she had passed a sunken schooner, the water being several feet...
A Broadcast from Broughty Ferry
AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.
The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described...
Category: Articles