LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
The annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund was held on the 9th ult., and was presided over by Mr. H. HAINES, of the House of Lords. The Report, which was read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secre- tary,...
Category: Meetings
Clarke Chapman & Company Limited
MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of similar design...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ST. ANDREW'S, FIFESHIRE.—A new lifeboat and transporting-carriage have been placed at St. Andrew's, and a Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been established there. This boat is on the selfrighting plan adopted by the...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated T y Royal Charter.1 FOUNDED in 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Feb 9,16,19,20, Mar 29 D-536:Feb 20,Mar 28,Apr 20 ABERDOVEY B-758:Feb 19,Mar 2,Apr 21 ABERSOCH B-79ftApr 13,20,27,28 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Feb 26 B-754:Apr 16,28 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28):Mar21 ON-1245(14-29):Feb 19,20... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
September (1)
BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
Category: Services
Coxswain Cross Retires.
Coxswain Robert Cross, G.M., who has been in command nf the lifeboat station at The Humber for 3i years, has retired at the age of 67.
These last tour years have been the busiest, as well as the most dangerous, in his long...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Muristan
In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...
An Admiralty Trawler
JULY 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that an Admiralty trawler had been blown up off the end of the breakwater. The weather was fine with a calm sea. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched...
Wales Community News
Pendine
3-PEAK SUMMIT FOR THE RNLI
In June, Shelley Phillips from Pendine raised an impressive £445 completing the National Three Peaks Challenge for the RNLI. The challenge calls for mountaineers...
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