LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glory
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 7.5 in the evening of the 12th of June, 1952, the harbour master received a report from a yachtsman that the fishing boat Glory, of Jersey, with one man on board, had broken down and was drifting seawards. The...
The Maud Smith Award
The late Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope, who lost his life when the life-boat capsized on 17th March, had a few days before been told that he had been elected to receive the annual gift of £5 from the Miss Maud Smith endow-...
Category: Awards
The RNLI and me: Clodagh McKenna
WHO IS CLODAGH MCKENNA?
Born in Cork, Clodagh McKenna describes her cooking as: ‘A fresh, modern take on Irish food with a focus on seasonal and local produce.’ Seafood is at the core of her cooking, influencing everything from...
Category: Articles
A Sailboard and a Boat
Exercise becomes service to three A training exercise became operational experience for the crew of the new relief Atlantic 21 at Cullercoats on 1 May 1991, earning the station a Letter of Thanks from the Director.Cullercoats' relief...
Speed Boats (1)
OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P.M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of soldiers.
J H Minet
J.H.MINET LIFE AND PENSIONS LTD A SUBSIDIARY OF MINET HOLDINGS LIMITED AN EXPANDING GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE BROKERS is proud of its close association with the RNLI as advisers to its employees and crewmen on all aspects of personal...
Category: Advertisement
None (2)
,Aith Shetland*.— At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 15th of April, 1957, a doctor, after consulting with the Medi- cal Officer of Health, asked if the life- boat would take him to Foula to visit a very sick woman who, he suspected, might...
Pluvier & Janet
— A W.S.W. gale of unusual severity was experienced on the 15th March, and at 5 A.M. signals of distress were observed from a vessel in St. Tudwell's Roads.
The Life-boat Oldham was launched in response, and found the...
July
Launches 27. Lives rescued 15.
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in...
Category: Services
One Hundred Years Old
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to August 31st, 1952 - 77,894 One Hundred Years Old By I. O. Evans,...
Category: Articles