LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Forecast of Rising Expenditure
IN pointing out at the annual meeting in London on 8th April, 1970, that the operational record of the life-boat and inshore rescue boat crews had been a triumphant one, the Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir...
Category: Meetings
News
Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...
Category: Articles
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...
Category: Services
List of Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following lists show the of Life-boat Days in the various districts, and also those places where Life-boat Days have been arranged but the dates have not yet been definitely fixed owing to the uncertainty caused by the present industrial...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1989 Continued from Previous Page
Continued from previous page Torbay, South Devon Relief 52ft Arun ON 1086: March 22, 25, 27, April 2 (four times), 15, 19, May 3, 11, 12 and 20 D class: April 1 and May 28 Trearddur Bay, Gwynedd D class: March 27, May 13 and 28 Troon,...
Category: Services
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1930
Developments for 1931.
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition has now been held for ten years. Started in 1918, it was held in that year and the two following years. In 1921,1922 and 1923 no...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: July 30 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 2, 10, 25 (three times) and July 27 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 5, 19, 25, 28 and 30 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: June 1, 2, 12, July 1,...
Category: Services
The Dredger Hopper James 96
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a small vessel was in difficulties north of Formby float. The life-boat Norman B, Corlett put out at...
Success, Gem, Provider A and Lead Us.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of March, 1951, four fishing vessels were at sea in a strong easterly gale with a heavy ground swell, and anxiety was felt for their safety.
Accordingly, at 8.15 the No. 1...
Lifeboat Services (1)
Lifeboat Services August, September and October 1988 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Anin ON 1050: October 20 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 2, 27 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 8, 20. 29, September 3,...
Category: Services