LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Hovercraft Princess Margaret
Hovercraft accident AT 1614 on the afternoon of Saturday March 30, 1985, the cross-channel hovercraft, Princess Margaret, radioed to Dover port control that she had collided with the breakwater on entering the harbour. It was cloudy with...
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Category: Advertisement
An Aeroplane
A PRIVATE AEROPLANE CRASHES St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.15 on the night of the 15th of August, 1947, a resident telephoned that her husband had taken off in his aeroplane, with the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic as a...
A Ship
On the 27th November a boat with four men in her was upset in the entrance to Teignmouth harbour, when attempting to board a vessel coming in.
One man succeeded in getting on board the ship, but the boat herself, with two...
Marabut
DEAD WOMAN FOUND IN SEA Anstruther, Fife. At 12.49 on the afternoon of Wednesday the 31 st of July, 1963, the coastguard at Anstruther informed the honorary secretary that the Polish trawler Marabut had reported that she was standing by the...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1929.
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Category: Accounts
The Institution and the War
WE have the pleasure of giving a list of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of a Permanent Crew, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His Majesty's Forces...
Category: Articles
Kilrush, on the Northern Side of the Approaches to the Shannon Will Become An Atlantic Lifeboat Station During 1995.
Kilrush, on the northern side of the approaches to the Shannon will become an Atlantic lifeboat station during 1995. The station will soon become a prominent feature at the point where the wall, to the right of the lock gates meets the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Last-Minute Rescue from Sinking Ship
AT 12.38 early on the morning of the j 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine of Glasgow, a vessel of 779 tons, bound from Llandulas for London with a cargo of limestone and carrying a crew of ten, wirelessed that her fore hatch had...
Category: Services
Arctic Prince
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...