LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 Rescues from around the country including a Bronze Medal and Vellum services Sepoy Rescue Anniversary 14 Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed the...
Category: Contents
Saunterer, of Blyth
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — During the afternoon of the 5th August the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Tyne sands, three miles west of Dunbar. She was the sailing yacht Saunterer, of Blyth, cruising in the Firth of Forth and...
The Boathouse at Largs
The boathouse at Largs demonstrates why the RNLt shoreworks department has a deserved reputation for the excellent quality of their buildings. Despite a severe pounding from the ferocious sea, no damage was done, the building did not flood... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Holdernore
LANDING INJURED MEN Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.30 in the morning of Christmas Day, 1947, the Hartland Point coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Holder- nore, of Hull, that she wanted to land injured men. With a doctor on board...
Mediateur, of Nantes
On the 15th Nov. the surf Life-boat, the Boys, assisted by a steamer, saved the schooner Mediateur, of Nantes, and her crew of 6 men, from a dangerous position near the North Star Battery, Great Yar- mouth. The vessel was damaged in the...
A Box of Arbroath Smokeys for Hrh the Duke of Kent
A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Points Castle, of Swansea
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.—- At 12.45 P.M. on the 21st June a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks on the east side of the Old Head of Kinsale. The sea was smooth but there was a very thick fog. The motor life-boat...
Summary of Year's Work
Launches of Life-boats.
Total number of launches, including those in which for various reasons no services were rendered - - - - - - - - 411 Of these launches 249 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
Category: Annual Reports
County Associations (Continued from Page 12)
In continuation of the description of the Anglesea Life-boat stations, we have now to give an account of Rhoscolyn, Penmon, Llanddwyn, aud Moelfre. Before doing so, however, we have to correct a mistake as to the Holyhead boat, which, in...
Category: Articles
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
Ix the issue of The Life-boat for last September an article was published on the pension fund which was formed to provide for the forty-two dependants of the nine life-boatmen who lost their lives when the Caister No. 2 life-boat was wrecked...
Category: Articles