LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited the RNLI headquarters and depot at Poole on Tuesday morning, October 7, attended by his Private Secretary, Lt-Cdr Richard Buckley, and accompanied by HM Lieutenant for Dorset, Col Sir...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st April to the 30th Sept. 1878
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
Category: Services
Lt David Stogdon Former Superintendent
Lt David Stogdon, former superintendent RNLI Cowes base who advised on the building of Koningin Beatrix, with Bernard de Jong, former inspector of the South Holland Lifeboat Society, ZHRM.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Seaplane
At 9 A.M. on the 15th December the military authorities reported that signals of dis- tress had been observed in St. Andrews Bay. In response the Motor Life-boat Maria was launched. She proceeded to St. Andrews Bay, where she found an...
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1861
Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 13th December, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Lt Cmdr Edward (Ted) Yates
Lt Cmdr Edward (Ted) Yates VRD RNR, honorary secretary of Llandudno lifeboat station from 1978 to 1994. He was appointed assistant honorary secretary in 1963, deputy launching authority from 1970 to 1977 and honorary secretary designate from...
Category: Obituaries
Helma II
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.40 early on the morning of the 26th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Durham that the yacht Helma II, which had a crew of two,...
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White Heather
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.50 on the evening of the 25th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the fishing boat White Heather was aground three hundred yards south of St. Ives pier and that her crew of four were trying to...