LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Line Throwing Gun at Naval Display
A TOURNAMENT and Display, organized by the Naval, Military and Air Force authorities at Portsmouth, was held on Southsea Common during the first fort- night of August. It was on the lines of the Naval and Military Tournament at Olympia, and...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI ACCOUNTS for 1984 have yet to be completed, but they are likely to show that during the year at least £21 million has been raised. This figure reflects not only the tremendous efforts of the branches and guilds but also the...
Category: Articles
Eleanora
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH PROPELLER FOULED Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 17th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two red flares were being burnt near Wyre light. The life-boat Ann...
Whitby Rose
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.29 on the afternoon of the 5th of December, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary and coxswain that the propeller of the motor fishing vessel Whitby Rose had been fouled seven miles north- north-east of...
Pioneer, of Exeter
Early on the morning of the 22nd December, during a strong W.N.W. wind, large signal lights were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands. The same life-boat went out, but, after searching about for some time, could not discover any...
Gala Cheque
Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew and gala committee hand over a cheque for £5,000 to Kieran Nash, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Scotland. Proceeds were from Anstruther gala day which was held on 13 July 1996..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—continued
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Ramsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward...
Category: Services
Three Brothers, Shamrock, Spray, Yorkshire Lass, Friends
.—A gale sprang up on the morning of the 26th November, from the S.S.W., and later backed to the southward, and increased in force. Two small cobles were seen making for the harbour, and a larger coble went off and assisted them into safety....
General Council of the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and H.R.H. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, attend the First Meeting.
THE first meeting of the General Council of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was held on 23rd November last at Hampden...
Category: Meetings