LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Above: Some of the 80 Guests Arriving
Above: Some of the 80 guests arriving for the gala performance of 'The Merry Widow' at Holland Park in Kensington on 27 June 2001.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Libra
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 1st of February, 1957, a message was received from Ballydavid that six men who were freeing the anchor chain of their motor vessel Libra had been blown ashore in their ship's boat and...
Listings
New D class at Trearddur BayNew D class at Trearddur BayThe crew of the Treaddur Bay lifeboat have already undergone intensive training on the new lifeboat.
On average the station's lifeboat is launched over 50 times a...
Category: Articles
The Great International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883
SINCE the great International Exhibition of 1851, promoted by the late lamented and ever-to-be-remembered PRINCE Conr- SORT, and carried to a successful termina- tion under his auspices, there have been many such exhibitions in this and...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Awards to Honorary Workers.1 DURING February and March the following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in re- cognition of their services in the cause of the Institution :—• To Captain...
Category: Branches
The S.S. Disperser
On the 7th February the s.s. Disperser, of West Hartlepool, was sinking, and the motor life-boat rescued one of the crew, but the coxswain received in- juries from which he died.—Rewards, Gold medal, with vellum, and £29 9s....
To the Help of Two Rafts
Coxswain J. McLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire has won the bronze medal for gallantry in rescuing two exhausted men from a ship's raft when it was within two hundred yards of the rocks in a heavy sea. The life-boat then went to another...
Category: Articles
Hammer Blow!
A grand bottle-breaking event was held at the Vaynol Arms Hotel in Abersoch, when the proceeds from six months hard work by the licensee, Andrew Shaw, were counted.
Long after the bottle had been filled interest in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (3)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
A Japanese Tanker
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...