LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hawarden Castle
At 5 A.M. on the 16th January the Coastguard reported to the Honorary Secretary that a vessel was ashore about a quarter of a mile north of Britannia Pier. The Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched in a fresh S.S.W....
Tafner
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1957, the motor mechanic and bowman reported to the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on North Rock. At four o'clock the life-boat Constance Calverley was...
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial to the Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives on Service on 3rd December, 1920
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial To The Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives On Service On 3rd December 1920. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bolivar (1)
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half miles from...
John Bull
DE C . 8 T H . - TORBAY, DEVON. At 9 A.M. a message was received that the motor fishing boat John Bull, of Torquay, which had gone to sea the previous morning, had not returned. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 9.45 A.M....
Nordanhar
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - On 21st February, 1970, the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched and rescued the crew of ten of the Swedish motor vessel Nordanhar. A full account of the service will appear in the next number of THE...
Quick on the Draws
Mr Charles Hunter-Pease, sales and marketing director of Volvo Concessionaires helps the Mayor of Torbay, Councillor Mrs Eileen Salloway draw the winning ticket for the South West Region at the Regional Conference on 10 October... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Propulsion of Life-Boats
IN our last number we considered the question as to the application of steam- power to Life-boats, and pointed out what we considered the insuperable difficulties in the way of its use. At the same time, however, who indicated that greater...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat on this Station has been exchanged for a new boat, provided by some friends of the Institution at Manchester, through J. F.
MILNE, Esq. At their request it is named the William and Mary. It is 34...
Category: Articles
Proud of our crowd
Lifesaving and volunteering were celebrated at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards at the Barbican in London this May. Chairman Admiral the Lord Boyce, in his morning address, also praised the work of the...
Category: Articles