LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
Category: Services
Part of the Dramatic Display Arranged By Noel E. Gleeson Ltd., In Their Car Showrooms In Dublin, In January 1966
Part of the dramatic display arranged by Noel E. Gleeson Ltd., in their car showrooms in Dublin, in January 1966. Emphasis was on the sale of souvenirs and in thefirst four days sales amounted to nearly £15. The display was to last for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Index to Advertisers
Birds Eye Foods Inside Back Cover Evett Sailwear Limited 182 Functional Clothing Inside Front Cover G. & M. Power Plant—Binoculars 182 G. & M. Power Plant—Radar Alarm 212 Glanvill Enthoven & Co Limited 182 David Jolly (Tiller...
Category: Advertisement
Nomad
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 12.J5 on the afternoon of the 15th of Decem- ber, 1958, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Harbour and Docks Board told the honorary secretary that the crew of two of the yacht Nomad had spent the night on the Bar...
Receipts and Payments—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1957
1956 £ 185,858 286 40,479 9,808 386 42,575 12,631 2,596 3,360 61,162 2,571 58,591 295,408 4,205 731 744 2,571 8,251 12,416 38,444 50,860 50,360 9,315 47,145 1,574 967 1,409 60,410 24,072 4,460 328 28,860 494,149 PAYMENTS LIFE-BOATS :—...
Category: Accounts
Sea Eagle II
SEARCH IN BAY Dungeness, Kent. At 3.10 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the Lade coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht had capsized off St. Mary's Bay and that a yawl was circling about four miles north-east of Dungeness. At 3.25 the...
Annual Meeting
THE eighty-ninth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Wednesday, April 16th, 1913, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
the Lord Mersey, P.O., presided, and amongst...
Category: Meetings
Margaret Anne, of Preston
On the 9th February the schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston, laden with coals, was driven ashore north of the harbour of Skerries, in a heavy easterly gale. The Skerries life-boat imme- tliately proceeded to her aid, and took off her crew,...
SAVED IN SECONDS
What can happen in 10 minutes? For coastal lifeboat stations, that can be the time needed for dedicated volunteers to drop whatever they’re doing, form a crew and launch. For those at Tower Lifeboat Station, it’s a different...
Category: Articles
Midnight Matinee
The Midnight Matinee which was planned to be held at the Victoria Palace theatre in London on March 8, and which was announced in the last number of THE LIFEBOAT had to be cancelled as a consequence of the economic outlook at the beginning...
Category: Articles