LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Freemasons' Albert Edward Life-Boat
IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
Category: Services
Pancake Race
Friends and work colleagues from several Penarth supermarkets and highstreet stores got together on Shrove Tuesday to take part in a sponsored pancake race in aid of the RNLI.
The picture shows the Lord Mayor of Cardiff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chataway
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...
Hanna
On the 27th June the No. 2 Life-boat British Workman was launched to the assistance of the schooner Hanna, of Lemland, timber laden, from Gefle for Dunkirk, which having lost her mast and becoming waterlogged had been abandoned by the crew,...
Your Letters
A letter from The Queen Mother Brian Miles. RNLI Director for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1998.
HM The Queen Mother wrote to Brian in October to offer her best wishes and congratulations on a job well...
Category: Correspondence
An Old Flying-Boat Float
JULY 13TH. - CROMARTY. Three soldiers had gone out in an old flying-boat float, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £7 10s..
Lifeboat Services Cont'
The summarised reports on this page concern services for which letters of commendation and thanks from Lt Cmdr Brian Miles, as deputy director/ chief of operations, have been sent to the stations and/or personnel...
Category: Services
Foison
PORTRUSH.—The fishing-smack Foison, of Portrush, was dismasted in a heavy squall off Port Stewart Point, on the evening of the 2nd November. Two other smacks were in company with her, but were unable to render her any assistance, on account...
Wilkelmine
The Coastguard called up the Coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Dibdin at 6 A.M. on the 2nd May, and reported that a large ship was ashore on the Main, near Sandown Castle. The crew were promptly as- sembled and the Life-boat launched in a...
The S.S. Earl Percy
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the 23rd December, at 5.30 A.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded to the Hasborough Sand, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong W.N.W. wind and heavy sea. On arriving there, she found the s.s. Earl...