LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
Category: Services
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.29 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had been reported in difficulties in Newport Bay. At 2.3 the life-boat White Star was...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Tuesday, 31st December, 1929.
PAID £17,250 15s. 3d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat estab- lishments....
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk...
Category: Services
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition
IT is very pleasant to be able to record that this Competition is growing both in popularity and in the extent to which schools in every part of Great Britain are taking part in it. Unfortunately, owing to the political situation, the...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Jfte figure! refer to the mcmten oftlix Life-lmtt detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A, F. H., 131.
A Friend at Bradford, 63.
A. Lady, 16.
A Lady, 31.
A Lady,...
Category: Drawings
Alderney - a Lifeboat Station from Scratch By Edward Wake-Walker
It is not often that a new lifeboat station is opened. This is the story of how the Channel island of Alderney came to provide what has rapidly proved an invaluable addition to the RNLI's operational cover.WHEN YOU HEAR him calmly...
Category: Articles
Filey's
Triumphant Julie Davidson receives her •crown from Filey's Coxswain Frank Jenkinson.
Her title, Filey Lifeboat Queen 1983-4, is contested each year in aid of the station.
Gordon Warley, of Primrose... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.
The IRB was...
Category: Services
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Anjn class lifeboat OM-1150 Hibtrntt Built 1989 Cost £600.000 Funding A very generous donation from the Irish Sailor* and Soldier* L*nd Truft. which also provided funding toward* th« running of lifeboat* in Ireland THE...
Category: Services